Luciano Floridi (Luciano Floridi is the Professor of Philosophy a

Information: A Very Short Introduction

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Luciano Floridi unpacks this fundamental concept - what information is, how it is measured, its value and meaning - cutting across the sciences and humanities, from DNA to the Internet, and the ethical issues related to privacy, copyright, and accessibility.

Produktdetails

• Very Short Introductions
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Februar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 172mm x 112mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 127g
• ISBN-13: 9780199551378
• ISBN-10: 0199551375
• Artikelnr.: 27371353

Autorenporträt

Luciano Floridi is the Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information at the Oxford Internet Institute, and a fellow of St Cross College, Oxford University. He is the founder and director of the Oxford University Information Ethics Research Group. His research interests include the philosophy of information, information and computer ethics, epistemology and philosophy of logic, and the history and philosophy of scepticism. He is the author of Philosophy and Computing: An Introduction (Routledge, 1999) and editor of the Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Computing and Information (Blackwell, 2004).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: The information revolution
2: The language of information
3: Mathematical information
4: Semantic information
5: Physical information
6: Biological information
7: Economic information
8: The ethics of information
Conclusion
References

Rezensionen

Splendidly pellucid. Steven Poole, The Guardian