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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 27 May 2025
- ISBN 9780367566906
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages206 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Weight 453 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 3 Illustrations, black & white; 3 Line drawings, black & white; 3 Tables, black & white 700
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Short description:
Digital Knowledge: A Philosophical Investigation is the first book to fully explain and examine digital knowledge: what it is, how it compares to received theories of knowledge and where it is going.
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Information we use to structure our lives is increasingly stored digitally, rather than in biomemory. (Just think: if your online calendar went down, would you know where you are supposed to be and at what time next week?) Likewise, with breakthroughs such as those from Google DeepMind and OpenAI, discoveries at the frontiers of knowledge are increasingly due to machine learning (often, applied to massive datasets, extracted from a fast-growing datasphere) rather than to brainbound cognition. It?s hard to deny that knowledge retention and production are becoming increasingly ? in various ways ? digitised.
Digital Knowledge: A Philosophical Investigation is the first book to squarely and rigorously investigate digital knowledge: what it is, how to make sense of it in connection with received theories of knowledge, and where it is going. Key questions J. Adam Carter examines along the way are the following:
- How is mere digital information converted into reliable digital knowledge?
- To what extent can digital knowledge be vindicated against sceptical challenges, and in what ways might digital knowledge stand distinctively subject to defeat?
- What is the epistemically optimal way for us to decide which tasks to outsource entirely to intelligent machines, and to what extent is further outsourcing appropriate (or not) to verify the results of that same outsourced cognition?
- Are there any ways in which the expansion of the datasphere threatens to make knowledge less, rather than more, easy to come by? If so, are there any promising ways to safeguard, epistemically, against such threats?
Using fascinating examples throughout, such as the recent chess match between Stockfish and Google?s AlphaZero, smartphones and personalisation, Digital Knowledge: A Philosophical Investigation is ideal for researchers investigating this fascinating area of research at the intersection of traditional mainstream epistemology, the philosophy of cognitive science, the philosophy of technology, and computer science.
MoreTable of Contents:
Preface 1. Digital Epistemology: A Research Programme Motivated 2. From Digital Information to Digital Knowledge 3. The Nature of Digital Knowledge: A Bi-Level Account 4. The Dark Side of Digital Knowledge: Scepticism and Defeat 5. A Digital Epistemology of Machine Learning 6. A Digital Epistemology of Big Data. Bibliography Index
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