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The philosophy of information / Luciano Floridi.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Floridi, Luciano, 1964- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Information science--Philosophy.
- Information science.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xviii, 405 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford, England ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 of information-theoretic and computational methodologies for philosophy.
- Contents:
- What is the philosophy of information?.
- Open problems in the philosophy of information
- The method of levels of abstraction
- Semantic information and the veridicality thesis
- Outline of a theory of strongly semantic information
- The symbol grounding problem
- Action-based semantics
- Semantic information and the correctness theory of truth
- The logical unsolvability of the Gettier problem
- The logic of being informed
- Understanding epistemic relevance
- Semantic information and the network theory of account
- Consciousness, agents, and the knowledge game
- Against digital ontology
- A defense of informational structural realism.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from title page (ebrary, viewed June 10, 2013).
- ISBN:
- 0-19-923239-3
- 1-283-63781-2
- 0-19-165564-3
- OCLC:
- 922971302
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