Craig Warmke
Biographic Data
| ID | 459892 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Craig Warmke |
| GIVEN NAMES | Craig |
| FAMILY NAME | Warmke |
| SIGNATURE | WARMKE C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northern Illinois University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8894-9055 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
What is bitcoin
Many want to know what bitcoin is and how it works. But bitcoin is as complex as it is controversial, and relatively few have the technical background to understand it. In this paper, I offer an accessible on-ramp for understanding bitcoin in the form of a model. My model reveals both what bitcoin is and how it works. More specifically, it reveals that bitcoin is a fictional substance in a massively coauthored story on a network that automates an…
What Is, and What Is in Itself: A Systematic Ontology
This monograph was not authored in two, five, or even ten years. Its depth and breadth reflect half a century of meditating on historical texts in their original languages, weighing arguments across several subdisciplines, and systematizing the author’s groundbreaking contributions.In a preface to the Principles of Philosophy, Descartes compares philosophy to a tree. Its roots are neither epistemology nor the philosophy of language but rather met…
Resistance Money: A Philosophical Case for Bitcoin
Bitcoin isn’t just for criminals, speculators, or wealthy Silicon Valley entrepreneurs – despite what the headlines say. In an imperfect world of rampant inflation, creeping authoritarianism, surveillance, censorship, and financial exclusion, bitcoin empowers individuals to elude the expanding reach and tightening grip of institutions both public and private. So although bitcoin is money, it isn’t just money. Bitcoin is resistance money. Resistan…
From Ideal Worlds to Ideality
In common treatments of deontic logic, the obligatory is what is true in all deontically ideal possible worlds. In this article, I offer a new semantics for Standard Deontic Logic with Leibnizian intensions rather than possible worlds. Even though the new semantics furnishes models that resemble Venn diagrams, the semantics captures the strong soundness and completeness of Standard Deontic Logic. Since, unlike possible worlds, many Leibnizian int…
Philosophy, politics, and economics of cryptocurrency I: Money without state
In this article, we describe what cryptocurrency is, how it works, and how it relates to familiar conceptions of and questions about money. We then show how normative questions about monetary policy find new expression in Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. These questions can play a role in addressing not just what money is, but what it should be. A guiding theme in our discussion is that progress here requires a mixed approach that integrates p…
Philosophy, politics, and economics of cryptocurrency II: The moral landscape of monetary design
In this article, we identify three key design dimensions along which cryptocurrencies differ - privacy, censorship-resistance, and consensus procedure. Each raises important normative issues. Our discussion uncovers new ways to approach the question of whether Bitcoin or other cryptocurrenciesshouldbe used as money, and new avenues for developing a positive answer to that question. A guiding theme is that progress here requires a mixed approach t…
Modal Semantics without Worlds
Over the last half century, possible worlds have bled into almost every area of philosophy. In the metaphysics of modality, for example, philosophers have used possible worlds almost exclusively to illuminate discourse about metaphysical necessity and possibility. But recently, some have grown dissatisfied with possible worlds. Why are horses necessarily mammals? Because the property of being a horse bears a special relationship to the property o…
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Modal Semantics without Worlds
Over the last half century, possible worlds have bled into almost every area of philosophy. In the metaphysics of modality, for example, philosophers have used possible worlds almost exclusively to illuminate discourse about metaphysical necessity and possibility. But recently, some have grown dissatisfied with possible worlds. Why are horses necessarily mammals? Because the property of being a horse bears a special relationship to the property o…
Philosophy, politics, and economics of cryptocurrency I: Money without state
In this article, we describe what cryptocurrency is, how it works, and how it relates to familiar conceptions of and questions about money. We then show how normative questions about monetary policy find new expression in Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. These questions can play a role in addressing not just what money is, but what it should be. A guiding theme in our discussion is that progress here requires a mixed approach that integrates p…
Philosophy, politics, and economics of cryptocurrency II: The moral landscape of monetary design
In this article, we identify three key design dimensions along which cryptocurrencies differ - privacy, censorship-resistance, and consensus procedure. Each raises important normative issues. Our discussion uncovers new ways to approach the question of whether Bitcoin or other cryptocurrenciesshouldbe used as money, and new avenues for developing a positive answer to that question. A guiding theme is that progress here requires a mixed approach t…
From Ideal Worlds to Ideality
In common treatments of deontic logic, the obligatory is what is true in all deontically ideal possible worlds. In this article, I offer a new semantics for Standard Deontic Logic with Leibnizian intensions rather than possible worlds. Even though the new semantics furnishes models that resemble Venn diagrams, the semantics captures the strong soundness and completeness of Standard Deontic Logic. Since, unlike possible worlds, many Leibnizian int…
What is bitcoin
Many want to know what bitcoin is and how it works. But bitcoin is as complex as it is controversial, and relatively few have the technical background to understand it. In this paper, I offer an accessible on-ramp for understanding bitcoin in the form of a model. My model reveals both what bitcoin is and how it works. More specifically, it reveals that bitcoin is a fictional substance in a massively coauthored story on a network that automates an…
What Is, and What Is in Itself: A Systematic Ontology
This monograph was not authored in two, five, or even ten years. Its depth and breadth reflect half a century of meditating on historical texts in their original languages, weighing arguments across several subdisciplines, and systematizing the author’s groundbreaking contributions.In a preface to the Principles of Philosophy, Descartes compares philosophy to a tree. Its roots are neither epistemology nor the philosophy of language but rather met…
Resistance Money: A Philosophical Case for Bitcoin
Bitcoin isn’t just for criminals, speculators, or wealthy Silicon Valley entrepreneurs – despite what the headlines say. In an imperfect world of rampant inflation, creeping authoritarianism, surveillance, censorship, and financial exclusion, bitcoin empowers individuals to elude the expanding reach and tightening grip of institutions both public and private. So although bitcoin is money, it isn’t just money. Bitcoin is resistance money. Resistan…
Computer Science (5 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Blockchain Technology Applications and Security (4 works) · Computer security (3 works) · Cryptocurrency (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Programming language (3 works) · World Wide Web (3 works)