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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A Theory of Philosophy as Conceptual Design
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ISBN
9780192570277
Publisert
2020
Utgiver
Oxford University Press Academic UK
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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