Luciano Floridi

Logic of Information

A Theory of Philosophy as Conceptual Design

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Produktbeschreibung

Luciano Floridi presents an innovative approach to philosophy, conceived as conceptual design. His starting-point is that reality provides the data which we transform into information. He explores how we make, transform, refine, and improve the objects of our knowledge, and defends the radical idea that knowledge is design.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 242mm x 167mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 564g
• ISBN-13: 9780198833635
• ISBN-10: 0198833636
• Artikelnr.: 54756514

Autorenporträt

Luciano 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.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 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 Philosophy