Liverpool Cardano Philosophy Hub: Voting, reputation, contribution
A session delivered as part of the project "Liverpool Cardano Philosophy Hub"
Liverpool Cardano Philosophy Hub was a Fund 8 Project Catalyst project exploring key blockchain concepts through the lens of philosophy. This session looked at blockchain communities' approach to governance and voting, including reputation and contribution systems, and asked what philosophy might be able to add to solving some of the problems of on-chain governance.
You can see the slides used in the session, and some links for further reading.
Slides
Further reading
Books
Common Good: Its Politics, Policies and Philosophy Marcus G. Raskin, 1986
The Oxford Handbook of Gossip and Reputation, ed. Francesca Giardini and Rafael Wittek, 2019
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism Shoshana Zuboff, 2019 (interesting take on some of the issues around how we are monitored, tracked and assessed)
Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life Nassim Nicholas Taleb 2018
Collective Choice and Social Welfare: An Expanded Edition Amartya Sen (1970; expanded edition 2016)
Articles
The Morality of Reputation and the Judgment of Others David S. Oderberg 2024, Journal of Practical Ethics
Reputation in Moral Philosophy and Epistemology Gloria Origgi, 2019 (a chapter of The Oxford Handbook of Gossip and Reputation, ed. Francesca Giardini and Rafael Wittek)
Becoming-Infrastructure: Datafication, Deactivation, and the Social Credit System Ramon Salim Diab, 2016?
Towards Graduated Citizenship: A Study of Social Credit Systems in China Kaicheng Yu, 2020
Wikipedia on Arrow’s impossibility theorem, a key problem in ranked-choice voting
Liberalism and the Problem of Plutocracy Jeffrey Edward Green, 2015
Contribution Systems: A New Theory of Value Ellie Rennie and Jason Potts, 2024
Trust and the trickster problem Zac Cogley, 2012 (interesting and short, raises some issues about how we trust each other/reputation)
Videos
Does the promise of a reward eliminate true morality? Greg Koukl, 2017. Note: this is from a specifically Christian perspective, but still raises some more general points about morality and reward.
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