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Putting Information First

Name: Putting Information First
Author: Patrick Allo, Patrick Allo

Luciano Floridi and the Philosophy of Information

Patrick Allo, Patrick Allo

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Putting Information First

Luciano Floridi and the Philosophy of Information

Patrick Allo, Patrick Allo

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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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Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell

Year

2011

ISBN

9781444396829

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Topic

Philosophy

Subtopic

Philosophy & Ethics in Science

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Contents
Title
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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