Hinne Hettema
Hinne is a cybersecurity consultant with a background in incident response, security architecture and threat intelligence. His experience spans IT and OT. He studied theoretical chemistry and philosophy. He obtained a PhD in theoretical chemistry at the Radboud University (1993) and a PhD in philosophy at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen in 2012. He is one of the authors of the Dalton quantum chemistry package.
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Books by Hinne Hettema
The starting point of this book is that there is at least a form of unity between chemistry and physics, where the reduction relation is conceived as a special case of this unity. However, matters are never concluded so simply within philosophy of chemistry, as significant problems exist around a number of core chemical ideas. Specifically, one cannot take the obvious success of quantum theories as outright support for a reductive relationship. Instead, in the context of a suitably adapted Nagelian framework for reduction, modern chemistry's relationship to physics is constitutive. The results provided by quantum chemistry, in particular, have significant consequences for chemical ontology
This naturalised notion of reduction is capable of characterising the inter-theory relationships between theories of chemistry and theories of physics. The reconsideration of reduction also leads to a new characterisation of chemical theories.
This book is primarily aimed at philosophers of chemistry and chemists with an interest in philosophy, but is also of interest to the general philosopher of science."
Talks by Hinne Hettema
This paper develops an ethical and social theory that is applicable to cyber security and cyber conflict. To develop this theory, I conceive of cyber security and cyber conflict primarily as a problem in social philosophy. In turn, I then propose that we use a contractualist approach to develop our view of a just infosphere. From this perspective we may then proceed to develop a set of norms for ethical behaviour in cyber space leading to cyber ethics. From this perspective it is moreover possible to shed light on what might be acceptable to groups in conflict -- specifically, to discuss how just war theory may be applicable to cyber conflict.
My proposal hinges on how contractualist theories of a just state may be extended to cyber space. Contractualist theories are based on a postulated and highly idealised `state of nature', which is then developed further into a `just state' by the application of a set of constitutive principles that are adhered to by the (idealised) actors in the original contract. Specifically, I will argue that we may capture the commitments of the actors in the original contract in terms of a set of minimal morality commitments and a set of minimal rationality commitments.
I will provide some historical evidence for this reconstruction, by considering specific features of the state of nature as described in Hobbes' Leviathan and Locke’s Second Treatise.
Extending contractualist theories to cyber space poses two unique problems. The first is the characterisation of the salient features of a `cyber' state of nature. This, somewhat surprisingly, is the easy part. It can be argued that the current lack of regulation and norms in cyber space actualise a state of nature. To put it bluntly: networked life can be nasty, brutish and short.
The second problem is the specification of an actor to the original contract. I will propose a notion of a cyber actor with a specific cyber identity and a minimal set of ethical commitments relating a cyber identity to the cyber identity of other actors. I will then argue that this proposal gets a few things right in regards to hacking: it enables us to specify what is ethically wrong with cyber intrusions and violations of the cyber identity of others. I furthermore argue that the notion of personal identity required by this solution is minimal and does not lead us into the significant philosophical problems associated with personal identity.
It is on this basis that we can develop the notion of a just cyber state. I argue that a just cyber state is characterised by specific commitments on access and availability, as well as privacy and integrity commitments of and on digital identities and agents, and finally includes due consideration of cyber acts on the non-cyber world. These commitments emerge through the social cyber contract: the actors in the contract exercise their ethical commitments as well as a minimal rationality to (hypothetically) construct a cyber social contract that lays out a set of acceptable cyber norms.
Finally, I develop my theory in the direction of conflicts between states – here conceived as boundaries of a social contract – to argue that just war theory is applicable to conflicts between societies in this way. To this end, we need a criterion that fractures the original social compact, and divides cyber identities in non-ideal opposing groups.
This example can be used to evaluate the philosophical notions of reduction deriving from Nagel, Spector, and Kemeny and Oppenheim, as well as Darden and Maull's notion of 'interfield theories'. These various theories of reduction are the key building blocks in the idea of unity of science. I argue that philosophical ideas about the unity of science need to consider theories of sufficient complexity to avoid the trap of oversimplification. On the other hand, we must also avoid a lazy conclusion of disunity, to which the theory of absolute reaction rates provides a robust counterexample.
Papers by Hinne Hettema
The starting point of this book is that there is at least a form of unity between chemistry and physics, where the reduction relation is conceived as a special case of this unity. However, matters are never concluded so simply within philosophy of chemistry, as significant problems exist around a number of core chemical ideas. Specifically, one cannot take the obvious success of quantum theories as outright support for a reductive relationship. Instead, in the context of a suitably adapted Nagelian framework for reduction, modern chemistry's relationship to physics is constitutive. The results provided by quantum chemistry, in particular, have significant consequences for chemical ontology
This naturalised notion of reduction is capable of characterising the inter-theory relationships between theories of chemistry and theories of physics. The reconsideration of reduction also leads to a new characterisation of chemical theories.
This book is primarily aimed at philosophers of chemistry and chemists with an interest in philosophy, but is also of interest to the general philosopher of science."
This paper develops an ethical and social theory that is applicable to cyber security and cyber conflict. To develop this theory, I conceive of cyber security and cyber conflict primarily as a problem in social philosophy. In turn, I then propose that we use a contractualist approach to develop our view of a just infosphere. From this perspective we may then proceed to develop a set of norms for ethical behaviour in cyber space leading to cyber ethics. From this perspective it is moreover possible to shed light on what might be acceptable to groups in conflict -- specifically, to discuss how just war theory may be applicable to cyber conflict.
My proposal hinges on how contractualist theories of a just state may be extended to cyber space. Contractualist theories are based on a postulated and highly idealised `state of nature', which is then developed further into a `just state' by the application of a set of constitutive principles that are adhered to by the (idealised) actors in the original contract. Specifically, I will argue that we may capture the commitments of the actors in the original contract in terms of a set of minimal morality commitments and a set of minimal rationality commitments.
I will provide some historical evidence for this reconstruction, by considering specific features of the state of nature as described in Hobbes' Leviathan and Locke’s Second Treatise.
Extending contractualist theories to cyber space poses two unique problems. The first is the characterisation of the salient features of a `cyber' state of nature. This, somewhat surprisingly, is the easy part. It can be argued that the current lack of regulation and norms in cyber space actualise a state of nature. To put it bluntly: networked life can be nasty, brutish and short.
The second problem is the specification of an actor to the original contract. I will propose a notion of a cyber actor with a specific cyber identity and a minimal set of ethical commitments relating a cyber identity to the cyber identity of other actors. I will then argue that this proposal gets a few things right in regards to hacking: it enables us to specify what is ethically wrong with cyber intrusions and violations of the cyber identity of others. I furthermore argue that the notion of personal identity required by this solution is minimal and does not lead us into the significant philosophical problems associated with personal identity.
It is on this basis that we can develop the notion of a just cyber state. I argue that a just cyber state is characterised by specific commitments on access and availability, as well as privacy and integrity commitments of and on digital identities and agents, and finally includes due consideration of cyber acts on the non-cyber world. These commitments emerge through the social cyber contract: the actors in the contract exercise their ethical commitments as well as a minimal rationality to (hypothetically) construct a cyber social contract that lays out a set of acceptable cyber norms.
Finally, I develop my theory in the direction of conflicts between states – here conceived as boundaries of a social contract – to argue that just war theory is applicable to conflicts between societies in this way. To this end, we need a criterion that fractures the original social compact, and divides cyber identities in non-ideal opposing groups.
This example can be used to evaluate the philosophical notions of reduction deriving from Nagel, Spector, and Kemeny and Oppenheim, as well as Darden and Maull's notion of 'interfield theories'. These various theories of reduction are the key building blocks in the idea of unity of science. I argue that philosophical ideas about the unity of science need to consider theories of sufficient complexity to avoid the trap of oversimplification. On the other hand, we must also avoid a lazy conclusion of disunity, to which the theory of absolute reaction rates provides a robust counterexample.