Towards a Philosophy of Financial Technologies

Author(s)

Mark Coeckelbergh, Quinn DuPont, Wessel Reijers

Abstract

This special issue introduces the study of financial technologies and finance to the field of philosophy of technology, bringing together two different fields that have not traditionally been in dialogue. The included articles are: Digital Art as ‘Monetised Graphics’: Enforcing Intellectual Property on the Blockchain, by Martin Zeilinger; Fundamentals of Algorithmic Markets: Liquidity, Contingency, and the Incomputability of Exchange, by Laura Lotti; ‘Crises of Modernity’ Discourses and the Rise of Financial Technologies in a Contested Mechanized World, by Marinus Ossewaarde; Two Technical Images: Blockchain and High-Frequency Trading, by Diego Viana; and The Blockchain as a Narrative Technology: Investigating the Social Ontology and Normative Configurations of Cryptocurrencies, by Wessel Reijers and Mark Coeckelbergh.

Organisation(s)

Department of Philosophy

External organisation(s)

Rutgers University, Dublin City University

Journal

Philosophy and Technology

Volume

31

Pages

9-14

No. of pages

6

ISSN

2210-5433

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-017-0261-7

Publication date

03-2018

Peer reviewed

Yes

Austrian Fields of Science 2012

603122 Philosophy of technology

Keywords

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Philosophy, History and Philosophy of Science

Portal url

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/b11aea60-1e69-4699-91bc-519ef0997e5d