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