The Logic of Information
A Theory of Philosophy as Conceptual Design
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- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
24 October 2021
Summary
Luciano Floridi presents an innovative approach to philosophy, conceived as conceptual design. He explores how we make, transform, refine, and improve the objects of our knowledge. His starting point is that reality provides the data, to be understood as constraining affordances, and we transform them into information, like semantic engines. Such transformation or repurposing is not equivalent to portraying, or picturing, or photographing, or photocopying anything. It is more like cooking: th…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780192847584 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0192847589 |
| Author: | Luciano Floridi |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 24 October 2021 |
| Weight: | 402g |
| Dimensions: | 14mm x 155mm x 233mm |
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Critics Review
for those familiar with Floridi’s work, this latest volume offers a cogent, consistent, and coherent culmination of more than two decades of his theorizing about PI. … Recommended
for those familiar with Floridi’s work, this latest volume offers a cogent, consistent, and coherent culmination of more than two decades of his theorizing about PI. … Recommended * CHOICE *
Luciano Floridi
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.
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