The logic of information : a theory of philosophy as conceptual design /

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Author / Creator:	Floridi, Luciano, 1964- author.
Edition:	First edition.
Imprint:	Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019.
Description:	xxii, 240 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Knowledge, Theory of. Analysis (Philosophy) Information theory. Analysis (Philosophy) Information theory. Knowledge, Theory of.
Format:	E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11807066

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ISBN:	0198833636 9780198833635
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	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.0It 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, Luciano Floridi articulates and defends the thesis that knowledge is design and philosophy is the ultimate form of conceptual design. 0Although 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.

Table of Contents:

Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Most Common Acronyms
List of Figures
Part I. Philosophy's Open Questions
1. What is a Philosophical Question?
Summary
1. Introduction: Russell's 'such ultimate questions'
2. The Variety of Questions
3. A Resource-oriented Approach to the Nature of Questions
4. Three Kinds of Question
5. Philosophical Questions as Open Questions
6. First Objection: There are No Open Questions
7. Second Objection: There are Too Many Open Questions
8. Third Objection: Open Questions are Unanswerable
9. Fourth Objection: Open Questions are Indiscriminate
Conclusion: Philosophy as Conceptual Design
2. Philosophy as Conceptual Design
Summary
1. Introduction: From the User's Knowledge to the Makers Knowledge
2. Plato's Wrong Step
3. The Maker's Knowledge Tradition
4. A Constructionist Methodology
5. Minimalism
6. The Method of Levels of Abstraction
7. Constructionism
Conclusion: Against Degenerate Epistemology
3. Constructionism as Non-naturalism
Summary
1. Introduction: A Plea for Non-naturalism
2. The Nature of Naturalism
3. Two Indefensible Non-naturalisms: The Supernatural and the Preternatural
4. Two Defensible Non-naturalisms: The Normative and the Semantic
5. In Defence of Non-naturalism
Conclusion: The Artefactual Nature of the Natural
Part II. Philosophy as Conceptual Design
4. Perception and Testimony as Data Providers
Summary
1. Introduction: The Relationship between Knowledge and Information
2. A First Potential Difficulty
3. Some Background
4. Perception and the Phaedrus' Test (Plato)
5. Testimony and the Parrot's Test (Descartes)
6. Data Providers
7. A Second Potential Difficulty
8. More Background
9. The Vice Analogy
10. The Constructionist Interpretation of Perception and Testimony
11. Informational Realism: Structures, Interactions, and Causality
Conclusion: The Beautiful Glitch
5. Information Quality
Summary
1. Big Data
2. The Epistemological Problem with Big Data
3. From Big Data to Small Patterns
4. Information Quality
5. The Epistemological Problem with Information Quality
6. A Bi-categorical Approach to Information Quality 110 Conclusion: Back to Fit-for-Purpose
6. Informational Scepticism and the Logically Possible
Summary
1. Introduction: History and Analysis of Scepticism
2. The Two Faces of Scepticism
3. Non-naturalism and the Foundational Problem in German-speaking Philosophy
4. Coherentism, Naturalism, and the Refutation of Scepticism in British
Philosophy
5. Pragmatist Epistemologies in American Philosophy
6. Possible Worlds and Bore! Numbers
7. The Edit Distance as a Modal Metrics
8. Informational Scepticism or the Sceptical Challenge Reconstructed
9. The Redundancy of Radical Informational Scepticism
10. The Usefulness of Moderate Informational Scepticism
11. Objections and Replies
Conclusion: From Descartes to Peirce
7. A Defence of Information Closure
Summary
1. Introduction: The Modal Logic of Being Informed
2. The Formulation of the Principle of Information Closure
3. The Sceptical Objection
4. A Defence of the Principle
5. Objection and Reply
Conclusion: Information Closure and the Logic of Being Informed
8. Logical Fallacies as Bayesian Informational Shortcuts
Summary
1. Introduction: A Greener Approach to Logic
2. "What are Logical Fallacies?
3. Do Formal Logical Fallacies Provide Any Information?
4. Formal Logical Fallacies and Their Explanations
5. Bayes' Theorem
6. Bayes' Theorem and the Fallacy of Affirming the Consequent
7. Bayes 'theorem and the Fallacy of Denying the Antecedent
8. Logical Formal Fallacies and Their Bayesian Interpretation
9. Advantages of the Bayesian Interpretation of Formal Logical Fallacies
Conclusion: Rationality Regained
9. Maker's Knowledge, between A Priori and A Posteriori
Summary
1. Introduction: The Question about Maker's Knowledge
2. Maker's Knowledge: Same Information
3. Maker's Knowledge: Different Account
4. Maker's Knowledge; ab anteriori
Conclusion: Some Consequences of the Analysis of the Maker's Knowledge
10. The Logic of Design as a Conceptual Logic of Information
Summary
1. Introduction: Two Modern Conceptual Logics of Information
2. Design, Contradictions, and Dialetheism
3. The Logic of Design as a Logic of Requirements
Conclusion: From Mimesis to Poiesis
Afterword-Rebooting Philosophy
Introduction
Scholasticism as the Philosophical Enemy of Open Questions
Philosophical Questions Worth Asking
A Philosophical Anthropology to Approach Philosophical Questions
How to Make Sense of the World and Design It Today
Conclusion: Creative Destruction in Philosophy
References
Index

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