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Record Nr.

UNINA9910877383803321

Titolo

Putting information first : Luciano Floridi and the philosophy of information / / edited by Patrick Allo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; ; Malden, MA, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010

ISBN

1-283-40851-1

9786613408518

1-4443-9681-1

1-4443-9683-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (210 p.)

Collana

Metaphilosophy

Classificazione

SCI075000

Altri autori (Persone)

AlloPatrick

Disciplina

004

121

Soggetti

Computer science - Philosophy

Information technology - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Putting Information First; Copyright page; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Putting information first: Luciano Floridi and The Philosophy of Information; The value of knowledge and the pursuit of survival; Knowledge transmissibility and pluralistic ignorance: A first stab; Meeting Floridi's challenge to artificial intelligence from the knowledge-game test for self-consciousness; Information without truth; Information and knowledge Á La Floridi; Abstraction, Law, and Freedom in Computer Science; Structuralism and information; Why information ethics must begin with virtue ethics

The philosophy of information:Ten years laterPhilosophy in the information age; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Putting Information First focuses on Luciano Floridi's contributions to the philosophy of information. Respected scholars stimulate the debate on the most distinctive and controversial views he defended, and present the philosophy of information as a specific way of doing philosophy.Contains eight essays by leading scholars, a reply by Luciano Floridi, and an epilogue by Terrell W. BynumExplains the importance of philosophy of information as a specific way of doing



philosophyFocuses directly on the work of Luciano Floridi in the area of philosophy of inform