Putting information first [[electronic resource] ] : Luciano Floridi and the philosophy of information / / edited by Patrick Allo

• Pubblicazione: Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; ; Malden, MA, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (210 p.)
• Disciplina: 004; 121
• Soggetto topico: Computer science - Philosophy; Information technology - Philosophy
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Classificazione: SCI075000
• Altri autori: AlloPatrick
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Putting information first
• ISBN: 1-283-40851-1; 9786613408518; 1-4443-9681-1; 1-4443-9683-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910131030203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II