Luciano Floridi presents a book that will set the agenda for the philosophy of information -- the study of the nature of information and the development ofinformation-theoretic and computational methodologies for philosophy. It revitalizes old philosophical questions, poses new problems, and it has already produced a wealth of important results. INDICE: Preface; 1: What is the Philosophy of Information?; 2: Open Problems in the Philosophy of Information; 3: The Method of Levels of Abstraction; 4: Semantic Information and the Veridicality Thesis; 5: Outline of a Theory of Strongly Semantic Information; 6: The Symbol Grounding Problem; 7: Action-Based Semantics; 8: Semantic Information and the Correctness Theory of Truth; 9: The Logical Unsolvability of the Gettier Problem; 10: The Logic of Being Informed; 11: Understanding Epistemic Relevance; 12: Semantic Information and theNetwork Theory of Account; 13: Consciousness, Agents and the Knowledge Game; 14: Against Digital Ontology; 15: A Defence of Informational Structural Realism; References
- ISBN: 9780199232390
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 432
- Fecha Publicación: 27/01/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés