Putting Information First: Luciano Floridi and the Philosophy of Information

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Putting Information First focuses on Luciano Floridi’s contributions to the philosophy of information. Respected scholars stimulate the debate on the most distinctive and controversial views he defended, and present the philosophy of information as a specific way of doing philosophy. Contains eight essays by leading scholars, a reply by Luciano Floridi, and an epilogue by Terrell W. Bynum Explains the importance of philosophy of information as a specific way of doing philosophy Focuses directly on the work of Luciano Floridi in the area of philosophy of information, but also connects to contemporary concerns in philosophy more generally Illustrates several debates that arise from core themes in the philosophy of information Content: Chapter 1 Putting Information First: Luciano Floridi and the Philosophy of Information (pages 1–8): Patrick AlloChapter 2 The Value of knowledge and the Pursuit of Survival (pages 9–32): Sherrilyn RoushChapter 3 Knowledge Transmissibility and Pluralistic Ignorance: A First Stab (pages 33–44): Vincent F. HendricksChapter 4 Meeting Floridi's Challenge to Artificial Intelligence from the Knowledge?Game Test for Self?Consciousness (pages 45–65): Selmer BringsjordChapter 5 Information without Truth (pages 66–83): Andrea Scarantino and Gualtiero PiccininiChapter 6 Information and knowledge a la Floridi (pages 84–96): Fred AdamsChapter 7 Abstraction, Law, and Freedom in Computer Science (pages 97–115): Timothy Colburn and Gary ShuteChapter 8 Structuralism and Information (pages 116–130): Otavio BuenoChapter 9 Why Information Ethics must begin with Virtue Ethics (pages 131–152): Richard VolkmanChapter 10 The Philosophy of Information: Ten Years Later (pages 153–170): Luciano FloridiChapter 11 Philosophy in the Information Age (pages 171–193): Terrell Ward Bynum