Preface
1: What is the Philosophy of Information?
2: Open Problems in the Philosophy of Information
3: The Method of Levels of Abstraction
4: Semantic Information and the Veridicality Thesis
5: Outline of a Theory of Strongly Semantic Information
6: The Symbol Grounding Problem
7: Action-Based Semantics
8: Semantic Information and the Correctness Theory of Truth
9: The Logical Unsolvability of the Gettier Problem
10: The Logic of Being Informed
11: Understanding Epistemic Relevance
12: Semantic Information and the Network Theory of Account
13: Consciousness, Agents and the Knowledge Game
14: Against Digital Ontology
15: A Defence of Informational Structural Realism
References
Luciano Floridi is Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of
Information at the University of Oxford, Senior Research Fellow at
the Oxford Internet Institute, and Fellow of St Cross College,
Oxford. Among his recognitions, he has been appointed the Gauss
Professor by the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, and is recipient
of the APA's Barwise Prize, the IACAP's Covey Award, and the
INSEIT's Weizenbaum Award. He is an AISB and BCS Fellow, Editor in
Chief of
Philosophy & Technology and of the Synthese Library, and was
Chairman of EU Commission's 'Onlife' research group. His most
recent books are: The Philosophy of Information (OUP, 2011),
Information: A Very Short
Introduction (OUP, 2010), and The Cambridge Handbook of Information
and Computer Ethics (CUP, 2010).
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