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.
By:
Luciano Floridi (University of Oxford) Imprint: Oxford University Press Country of Publication: United Kingdom Dimensions:
Height: 240mm,
Width: 165mm,
Spine: 36mm
Weight: 800g ISBN:9780199232383 ISBN 10: 0199232385 Publication Date:03 February 2011 Audience:
College/higher education
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Further / Higher Education
Format:Hardback Publisher's Status: Active
Preface 1: What is the Philosophy of Information? 2: Open Problems in the Philosophy of Information 3: The Method of Levels of Abstraction 4: Semantic Information and the Veridicality Thesis 5: Outline of a Theory of Strongly Semantic Information 6: The Symbol Grounding Problem 7: Action-Based Semantics 8: Semantic Information and the Correctness Theory of Truth 9: The Logical Unsolvability of the Gettier Problem 10: The Logic of Being Informed 11: Understanding Epistemic Relevance 12: Semantic Information and the Network Theory of Account 13: Consciousness, Agents and the Knowledge Game 14: Against Digital Ontology 15: A Defence of Informational Structural Realism References
Reviews for The Philosophy of Information
the non-technical portions are understandable to everyone and provide plenty of food for thought. Steven Harnad, Times Literary Supplement there is much of interest and value in this major book. J. Michael Dunn, Metascience