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OverviewLuciano 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: 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)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 23.30cm Weight: 0.402kg ISBN: 9780192847584ISBN 10: 0192847589 Pages: 272 Publication Date: 02 September 2021 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsPart 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 PhilosophyReviewsfor 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 * Author InformationLuciano 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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