Supporters and Underminers: Reply to Chandler

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Online social media offers an unprecedented laboratory to explore social interactions at scale. Yet it's hard to anticipate all the effects of a system with so many actors, and the systems we build are often re-appropriated by end users. To better understand how these systems are used, we employ mixed methods research to combine small-scale observations with large-scale data analysis. I'll prov...

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Exploiting recent advances in monitoring technology and the drop of its costs, authoritarian and oppressive regimes are tightening the grip around the virtual lives of their citizens. Meanwhile, the dissidents, oppressed by these regimes, are organizing online, cloaking their activity with anti-censorship systems that typically consist of a network of anonymizing proxies. The censors have becom...

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Autobiography of David Chandler.

I was born the younger of my parents’ two children, on October 15, 1944, at Brooklyn Jewish Hospital, in New York. Except for two years when I was five and six years old, I spent my formative years in Great Neck, a north shore Long Island suburb of New York City, where I benefited from material comforts, excellent schools, and abundant opportunities for cultural and recreational activities. My ...

Wright, Okasha and Chandler on transmission failure

ABSTRACT Crispin Wright has given an explanation of how a first time warrant can fall short of transmitting across a known entailment. Formal epistemologists have struggled to turn Wright’s informal explanation into cogent Bayesian reasoning. In this paper, I analyse two Bayesian models of Wright’s account respectively proposed by Samir Okasha and Jake Chandler. I argue that both formalizations...