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Luciano Floridi’s Philosophy of Technology

Critical Reflections

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  • © 2012

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Editors:
  1. Hilmi Demir

    1. Bilkent, Ankara, Turkey

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  • Unique overview discussion of Luciano Floridi
  • One of the most exciting philosophers today
  • Explanatory overview about the role of Philosophy in an information driven world ?

Part of the book series: Philosophy of Engineering and Technology (POET, volume 8)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Information Ethics and the Method of Levels of Abstraction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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  3. Information Ethics and The Method of Levels of Abstraction

    1. Floridi’s Information Ethics as Macro-ethics and Info-computational Agent-Based Models

      • Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic
      Pages 3-22

    2. Artificial Agents, Cloud Computing, and Quantum Computing: Applying Floridi’s Method of Levels of Abstraction

      • M. J. Wolf, F. S. Grodzinsky, K. W. Miller
      Pages 23-41

    3. Levels of Abstraction and Morality

      • Richard Lucas
      Pages 43-63

    4. The Homo Poieticus and the Bridge Between Physis and Techne

      • Federica Russo
      Pages 65-81

  4. The Information Revolution and Alternative Categorizations of Technological Advancements

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 83-83
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    2. In the Beginning Was the Word and Then Four Revolutions in the History of Information

      • Anthony F. Beavers
      Pages 85-103

    3. I Mean It! (And I Cannot Help It): Cognition and (Semantic) Information

      • Valeria Giardino
      Pages 105-122

  5. Applications: Education, Internet and Information Science

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 123-123
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    2. What Happens to Infoteachers and Infostudents After the Information Turn?

      • Elena Pasquinelli
      Pages 125-150

    3. Content Net Neutrality – A Critique

      • Raphael Cohen-Almagor
      Pages 151-167

    4. Information Science and Philosophy of Information: Approaches and Differences

      • Armando Malheiro da Silva, Fernanda Ribeiro
      Pages 169-187

  6. Epistemic and Ontic Aspects of the Philosophy of Information

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 189-189
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    2. Skepticism and Information

      • Eric T. Kerr, Duncan Pritchard
      Pages 191-200

    3. Levels of Abstraction; Levels of Reality

      • Joseph E. Brenner
      Pages 201-222

    4. The Floridian Notion of the Information Object

      • Steve T. McKinlay
      Pages 223-241

  7. Replies by Floridi

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 243-243
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  8. Part 5

    1. The Road to the Philosophy of Information

      • Luciano Floridi
      Pages 245-271

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 273-274
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Information and communication technologies of the 20th century have had a significant impact on our daily lives. They have brought new opportunities as well as new challenges for human development. The Philosopher: Luciano Floridi claims that these new technologies have led to a revolutionary shift in our understanding of humanity’s nature and its role in the universe. Florodi’s philosophical analysis of new technologies leads to a novel metaphysical framework in which our understanding of the ultimate nature of reality shifts from a materialist one to an informational one. In this world, all entities, be they natural or artificial, are analyzed as informational entities. This book provides critical reflection to this idea, in four different areas:  Information Ethics and The Method of Levels of Abstraction The Information Revolution and Alternative Categorizations of Technological Advancements Applications: Education, Internet and Information Science Epistemic and Ontic Aspects of the Philosophy of Information

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  • Bilkent, Ankara, Turkey

    Hilmi Demir

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