Putting Information First: Luciano Floridi and the Philosophy of Information

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Patrick Allo
John Wiley & Sons, May 3, 2011 - Science - 208 pages
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. Bynum
  • Explains the importance of philosophy of information as a specific way of doing philosophy
  • Focuses directly on the work of Luciano Floridi in the area of philosophy of information, but also connects to contemporary concerns in philosophy more generally
  • Illustrates several debates that arise from core themes in the philosophy of information
 

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Contents

Notes on Contributors
References
Nash Equilibria and ESS in the TrueBelief Signaling
Knowledge Transmissibility
Modal Operator Epistemology
Agents and Inquiry Methods
Multimodal Systems
Knowledge Transmissibility 6 Knowledge Transmissibility and Public Announcement 7 Knowledge Transmissibility and Pluralistic Ignorance
Information Without Truth 1 Information and the Veridicality Thesis 2 Information as a Mongrel Concept
Natural Information Without Truth
The Case for the Veridicality Thesis
References
Information and KnowledgeÀ la Floridi
References
Structuralism and Information
Informational Structuralism

References
Meeting Floridis Challenge to Artificial Intelligence from the KnowledgeGame Test for Self Consciousness 1 Introduction
Preliminaries
The KnowledgeGame Quartet
AI Contra Floridi Can Handle KG 4
Objections
Conclusion
Acknowledgments References
Why Information Ethics must Begin with
You Cant See Nothing from Nowhere
Justice Means Competition
The Philosophy of Information
Acknowledgments
References
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About the author (2011)

Patrick Allo is a Postdoctoral Fellow based at the Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium. He is also affiliated with the Information Ethics Group at the University of Oxford. His research focuses on the interface between the philosophy of logic, formal epistemology, and the philosophy of information.

Bibliographic information

TitlePutting Information First: Luciano Floridi and the Philosophy of Information
EditorPatrick Allo
PublisherJohn Wiley & Sons, 2011
ISBN144439682X, 9781444396829
Length208 pages
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Philosophy / General
Science / Philosophy & Social Aspects
  
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