- From: Henry Story <henry.story@bblfish.net>
- Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2018 15:41:22 +0200
- To: public-philoweb@w3.org
Hi all, My paper "Epistemology in the Cloud" has been accepted for the desemweb track of ISWC [1] and is published in Vol 2165 of CEUR. Links to that in different formats and additional articles that develop on it can be found here https://medium.com/@bblfish/epistemology-in-the-cloud-472fad4c8282 Abstract: The web is an open platform that allows anyone to publish anything, and so raises anew many epistemological questions: how can one distinguish what is true, what is fake or what is fictional on the web? Indeed how can one know anything at all? We start from an analysis of knowledge that makes space for radical skepticism and which allows us to locate the essential problem with the current web application architecture. This allows us to propose a set of criteria that explicate and justify the decentralised architecture of the internet and the web, and the need for that to be extended to the data and application layer. The proposed architecture is socio-technical, recognising the roles of individuals, institutions and nations in our epistemic makeup. We illustrate this by proposing an architecture of trust that ties these institutions into browsers in a decentralised and open way, allowing them to make the web a more trustworthy space. As a side effect we gain the tools to make some serious inroads in helping combat Phishing. It could just as well have been published in a philosophy journal, and indeed I would have appreciated philosophical reviewers of the paper. I will be developing it in my phd thesis... Henry Story [1] http://iswc2018.desemweb.org/
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