Liverpool Cardano Philosophy Hub: How does a blockchain work, philosophically?
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 key elements of how a blockchain works, and linked them to philosophical concepts.
You can see the slides used in the session, and some links for further reading.
Slides
Further reading
Books
Philosophy of Blockchain Technology - Ontologies Nicolae Sfetcu, 2019
Crypto-Current: Bitcoin and Philosophy Nick Land, 2018
Artists Re-Thinking the Blockchain Ruth Catlow, Marc Garrett, Nathan Jones, Sam Skinner, 2017
Articles
Chain of thought: Exploring blockchain through the lens of philosophy - Sasha Shilina, 2023
Blockchain in terms of philosophy: From Plato to Foucault @sshshln, 2023
Towards a philosophy of blockchain: a symposium Melanie Swan and Primavera de Filippi, 2017. Record of a symposium that aimed to define a philosophy of blockcahin. Interesting read.
On The Philosophy Of Bitcoin/Blockchain Technology Renato P. Dos Santos, 2017
Philosophy of Blockchain Technology: Ontologies Nicolae Sfetcu, 2019. Looks at bockchain through the lens of Foucault’s concept of heterotopia and Rocoeur’s narrative history
Beyond Technology: Blockchain as the Philosophy by @sshshln, 2023
Sees blockchain as a philosophy in its own right; looks at it from the standpoint of 80s cyberpunk, 2000s solarpunk, and crypto-anarchism.
On The Philosophy Of Bitcoin/Blockchain Technology: Is It A Chaotic, Complex System? Renato P. Dos Santos, 2017
Determinism: The Philosophy of Blockchain Fernando Sanchez, 2020 Accessible and quite short, on blockchain’s fundamentally determinist approach
Philosophy, politics, and economics of cryptocurrency II: The moral landscape of monetary design Andrew M. Bailey, Bradley Rettler and Craig Warmke, 2021
A Philosophical Intuition Behind the Blockchain Gian Segato, 2021 - short and entertaining read, comparing Aquinas’s idea of causality to the structure of a blockchain.
Why Care About Bitcoin? Here's One Philosopher's Take Peter Wolfendale, 2021
Is bitcoin an ethical currency? Tobey Scharding, 2018. Short opinion-piece about the ethics of Bitcoin through the lens of Kantian ethics.
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