La philosophie de la technologie blockchain - Ontologies

On the necessity and usefulness of developing a specific philosophy for blockchain technology, emphasizing ontological aspects. After an Introduction which highlights the main philosophical orientations of this emerging technology, in Blockchain technology I explain how the blockchain works, analyzing the directions of ontological development of this technology in Design and modeling. The next section is dedicated to the main application of blockchain technology, Bitcoin, with the social implications of this cryptocurrency. There follows a section of Philosophy in which I identify blockchain technology with the concept of heterotopia developed by Michel Foucault and interpret it in light of the scoring technology developed by Nelson Goodman as a scoring system. In the Ontology section, I present two paths of development that I consider important: a Narrative Ontology, based on the idea of order and structure of history transmitted through the narrative history of Paul Ricoeur, and the system of Business Ontology based on concepts and business models, specific to the Semantic Web, which I consider to be the most developed and which will probably become the formal ontological system, at least with regard to the economic and legal aspects of blockchain technology. In Conclusions, I talk about future directions in the development of blockchain technology philosophy in general as an explanatory and robust theory from a phenomenologically consistent perspective, which allows for testability and ontologies in particular, arguing for the need of the global adoption of an ontological system in order to develop transversal solutions and make this technology profitable.