Luciano Floridi’s Philosophy of Technology
Critical Reflections
Editors: Demir, Hilmi (Ed.)
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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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Floridi’s Information Ethics as Macro-ethics and Info-computational Agent-Based Models
Pages 3-22
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Artificial Agents, Cloud Computing, and Quantum Computing: Applying Floridi’s Method of Levels of Abstraction
Pages 23-41
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Levels of Abstraction and Morality
Pages 43-63
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The Homo Poieticus and the Bridge Between Physis and Techne
Pages 65-81
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In the Beginning Was the Word and Then Four Revolutions in the History of Information
Pages 85-103
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Luciano Floridi’s Philosophy of Technology
- Book Subtitle
- Critical Reflections
- Editors
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- Hilmi Demir
- Series Title
- Philosophy of Engineering and Technology
- Series Volume
- 8
- Copyright
- 2012
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht.
- eBook ISBN
- 978-94-007-4292-5
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-94-007-4292-5
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-94-007-4291-8
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-94-007-9197-8
- Series ISSN
- 1879-7202
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XVIII, 274
- Topics
