The Logic of Information: A Theory of Philosophy as Conceptual Design

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Luciano Floridi (Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information / Turing Fellow, Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information / Turing Fellow, University of Oxford / The Alan Turing Institute)

The Logic of Information

A Theory of Philosophy as Conceptual Design

Luciano Floridi (Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information / Turing Fellow, Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information / Turing Fellow, University of Oxford / The Alan Turing Institute)

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Oxford University Press
25 October 2021

Information theory; Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge; Philosophy: logic; Cognitivism, cognitive theory; Computer science

Luciano Floridi presents an innovative approach to philosophy, conceived as conceptual design. He explores how we make, transform, refine, and improve the objects of our knowledge. His starting point is that reality provides the data, to be understood as constraining affordances, and we transform them into information, like semantic engines. Such transformation or repurposing is not equivalent to portraying, or picturing, or photographing, or photocopying anything. It is more like cooking: the dish does not represent the ingredients, it uses them to make something else out of them, yet the reality of the dish and its properties hugely depend on the reality and the properties of the ingredients. Models are not representations understood as pictures, but interpretations understood as data elaborations, of systems. Thus, he articulates and defends the thesis that knowledge is design and philosophy is the ultimate form of conceptual design. Although entirely independent of Floridi's previous books, The Philosophy of Information (OUP 2011) and The Ethics of Information (OUP 2013), The Logic of Information both complements the existing volumes and presents new work on the foundations of the philosophy of information.

By: Luciano Floridi (Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information / Turing Fellow Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information / Turing Fellow University of Oxford / The Alan Turing Institute)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 233mm, Width: 155mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 402g
ISBN: 9780192847584
ISBN 10: 0192847589
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 25 October 2021
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Part I 1: What is a Philosophical Question? 2: Philosophy as Conceptual Design 3: Constructionism as Non-Naturalism Part II 4: Perception and Testimony as Data Providers 5: Information Quality 6: Informational Scepticism and the Logically Possible 7: A Defence of Information Closure 8: Logical Fallacies as Bayesian Informational Shortcuts 9: Maker's Knowledge, between A priori and A Posteriori 10: The Logic of Design as a Conceptual Logic of Information Afterword: Rebooting Philosophy

Luciano Floridi is Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information at the University of Oxford and Professor of Sociology of Culture and Communication at the University of Bologna, where he is the Director of the Centre for Digital Ethics. He is a world-renowned expert in digital ethics, the ethics of AI, the philosophy of technology, and the philosophy of information.

Reviews for The Logic of Information: A Theory of Philosophy as Conceptual Design

for those familiar with Floridi's work, this latest volume offers a cogent, consistent, and coherent culmination of more than two decades of his theorizing about PI. ... Recommended * CHOICE *