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.