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The Logic of Information: A Theory of Philosophy as Conceptual Design
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: the dish does not represent the ingredients, it uses them to make something else out of them, yet the reality of the dish and its properties hugely depend on the reality and the properties of the ingredients. Models are not representations understood as pictures, but interpretations understood as data elaborations, of systems. Thus, he articulates and defends the thesis that knowledge is design and philosophy is the ultimate form of conceptual design.

Although entirely independent of Floridi's previous books, The Philosophy of Information (OUP 2011) and The Ethics of Information (OUP 2013), The Logic of Information both complements the existing volumes and presents new work on the foundations of the philosophy of information.
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The Logic of Information: A Theory of Philosophy as Conceptual Design
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: the dish does not represent the ingredients, it uses them to make something else out of them, yet the reality of the dish and its properties hugely depend on the reality and the properties of the ingredients. Models are not representations understood as pictures, but interpretations understood as data elaborations, of systems. Thus, he articulates and defends the thesis that knowledge is design and philosophy is the ultimate form of conceptual design.

Although entirely independent of Floridi's previous books, The Philosophy of Information (OUP 2011) and The Ethics of Information (OUP 2013), The Logic of Information both complements the existing volumes and presents new work on the foundations of the philosophy of information.
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The Logic of Information: A Theory of Philosophy as Conceptual Design

The Logic of Information: A Theory of Philosophy as Conceptual Design

by Luciano Floridi
The Logic of Information: A Theory of Philosophy as Conceptual Design
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The Logic of Information: A Theory of Philosophy as Conceptual Design

The Logic of Information: A Theory of Philosophy as Conceptual Design

by Luciano Floridi

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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: the dish does not represent the ingredients, it uses them to make something else out of them, yet the reality of the dish and its properties hugely depend on the reality and the properties of the ingredients. Models are not representations understood as pictures, but interpretations understood as data elaborations, of systems. Thus, he articulates and defends the thesis that knowledge is design and philosophy is the ultimate form of conceptual design.

Although entirely independent of Floridi's previous books, The Philosophy of Information (OUP 2011) and The Ethics of Information (OUP 2013), The Logic of Information both complements the existing volumes and presents new work on the foundations of the philosophy of information.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780192847584
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 11/02/2021
Pages: 272
Product dimensions: 9.29(w) x 6.23(h) x 0.58(d)

About the Author

Luciano Floridi, Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information / Turing Fellow, University of Oxford / The Alan Turing Institute

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.

Table of Contents

Part I1. What is a Philosophical Question? 2. Philosophy as Conceptual Design3. Constructionism as Non-NaturalismPart II4. Perception and Testimony as Data Providers5. Information Quality6. Informational Scepticism and the Logically Possible7. A Defence of Information Closure8. Logical Fallacies as Bayesian Informational Shortcuts9. Maker's Knowledge, between A priori and A Posteriori10. The Logic of Design as a Conceptual Logic of InformationAfterword: Rebooting Philosophy
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