Johan Fredrikzon spent one and a half years as visiting research assistant at the Film Media Studies Program Yale University 2018/2019. Some months before he arrived, two-day workshop on Simondon was held by Yale-Düsseldorf Working Group Philosophy Media, titled Modes of Technical Objects, with scholars from US Germany. decided to engage few participants for this special issue Sensorium, purpos...

This is an interview by the Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics with Ian Carter. The covers Carter's intellectual biography; his extensive writings on measurement value of freedom; reflections use formal methods in philosophical work freedom political philosophy more broadly; recent basic equality respect persons; and, finally, advice to young scholars.

Cooperative, peer-to-peer (P2P) services—distributed systems consisting of participants from multiple administrative domains (MAD)—must deal with the threat of arbitrary (Byzantine) failures while incentivizing the cooperation of potentially selfish (rational) nodes that such services rely on to function. This paper investigates how to specify conditions (i.e., a solution concept) for rational ...

Almost all living things act to free themselves from harmful contacts. A kind of freedom is achieved by the relatively simple forms of behavior called reflexes. A person sneezes and frees his respiratory passages from irritating substances. He vomits and frees his stomach from indigestible or poisonous food. He pulls back his hand and frees it from a sharp or hot object. More elaborate forms of...

Every dictator dislikes free media. Yet, many non-democratic countries have partially free or almost free media. In this paper, we develop a theory of media freedom in dictatorships and provide systematic statistical evidence in support of this theory. In our model, free media allow a dictator to provide incentives to bureaucrats and therefore to improve the quality of government. The importanc...

The claim was for indirect discrimination: that is where a facially neutral measure has an adverse impact on a protected group. A simple example would be: ‘Librarians wanted, applicants must be at least six feet tall.’ That requirement would not directly discriminate on grounds of sex or race, but it would, indirectly, adversely affect women and certain racial groups. Indirect discrimination is...

In the 1950s and 1960s, many Africans believed that independence would change prospects for rapid economic growth and development. First, independence implied the end of colonialism and its despotic, exploitative, and repressive institutions. Second, with the Europeans gone, Africans could now engage in democratic (people-driven, participatory, and inclusive) constitution-making to provide them...

If there is a man, the statement whereby we say that there is a man is true, and reciprocally—since if the statement whereby we say that there is a man is true, there is a man. And whereas the true statement is in no way the cause of the actual thing’s existence, the actual thing does seem in some way the cause of the statement’s being true: it is because the actual thing exists or does not tha...

We propose a novel notion of pointer race for concurrent programs manipulating a shared heap. A pointer race is an access to a memory address which was freed, and it is out of the accessor’s control whether or not the cell has been re-allocated. We establish two results. (1) Under the assumption of pointer race freedom, it is sound to verify a program running under explicit memory management as...