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About this book
Putting Information First focuses on Luciano Floridi's contributions to the philosophy of information. Respected scholars stimulate the debate on the most distinctive and controversial views he defended, and present the philosophy of information as a specific way of doing philosophy.
- Contains eight essays by leading scholars, a reply by Luciano Floridi, and an epilogue by Terrell W. Bynum
- Explains the importance of philosophy of information as a specific way of doing philosophy
- Focuses directly on the work of Luciano Floridi in the area of philosophy of information, but also connects to contemporary concerns in philosophy more generally
- Illustrates several debates that arise from core themes in the philosophy of information
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Title
- Copyright
- Notes on Contributors
- Chapter 1: Putting Information First: Luciano Floridi and the Philosophy of Information
- Chapter 2: The Value of Knowledge and the Pursuit of Survival
- Chapter 3: Knowledge Transmissibility and Pluralistic Ignorance: A First Stab
- Chapter 4: Meeting Floridi’s Challenge to Artificial Intelligence from the Knowledge-Game Test for Self-Consciousness
- Chapter 5: Information Without Truth
- Chapter 6: Information and Knowledge a la Floridi
- Chapter 7: Abstraction, Law, and Freedom in Computer Science
- Chapter 8: Structuralism and Information
- Chapter 9: Why Information Ethics Must Begin with Virtue Ethics
- Chapter 10: The Philosophy of Information: Ten Years Later
- Chapter 11: Philosophy in the Information Age
- Index