The Philosophy of Information
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 10 January 2013
- ISBN 9780199232390
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages432 pages
- Size 233x168x22 mm
- Weight 660 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Luciano Floridi presents a book that will set the agenda for the philosophy of information -- the study of the nature of information and the development of information-theoretic and computational methodologies for philosophy. It revitalizes old philosophical questions, poses new problems, and it has already produced a wealth of important results.
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Luciano Floridi presents a book that will set the agenda for the philosophy of information. PI is the philosophical field concerned with (1) the critical investigation of the conceptual nature and basic principles of information, including its dynamics, utilisation, and sciences, and (2) the elaboration and application of information-theoretic and computational methodologies to philosophical problems. This book lays down, for the first time, the conceptual foundations for this new area of research. It does so systematically, by pursuing three goals. Its metatheoretical goal is to describe what the philosophy of information is, its problems, approaches, and methods. Its introductory goal is to help the reader to gain a better grasp of the complex and multifarious nature of the various concepts and phenomena related to information. Its analytic goal is to answer several key theoretical questions of great philosophical interest, arising from the investigation of semantic information.
The impressive and exciting project that Floridi undertakes in his book is aimed at establishing the philosophy of information as a mature subdiscipline of philosophy, with its own method and research programme ... Floridi's book not only presents a comprehensive framework for the philosophy of information but also makes a strong case for its legitimacy as a mature subdiscipline of philosophy. The intellectual debates and new research that it has already stimulated testify to its importance as a significant contribution to the literature.
Table of Contents:
Preface
What is the Philosophy of Information?
Open Problems in the Philosophy of Information
The Method of Levels of Abstraction
Semantic Information and the Veridicality Thesis
Outline of a Theory of Strongly Semantic Information
The Symbol Grounding Problem
Action-Based Semantics
Semantic Information and the Correctness Theory of Truth
The Logical Unsolvability of the Gettier Problem
The Logic of Being Informed
Understanding Epistemic Relevance
Semantic Information and the Network Theory of Account
Consciousness, Agents and the Knowledge Game
Against Digital Ontology
A Defence of Informational Structural Realism
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