{"product_id":"putting-information-first-9781444338676","title":"Putting Information First","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePutting Information First\u003c\/i\u003e 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.  \u003cul type=\"disc\"\u003e \u003cli\u003eContains eight essays by leading scholars, a reply by Luciano Floridi, and an epilogue by Terrell W. Bynum\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExplains the importance of philosophy of information as a specific way of doing philosophy\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eFocuses directly on the work of Luciano Floridi in the area of philosophy of information, but also connects to contemporary concerns in philosophy more generally\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIllustrates several debates that arise from core themes in the philosophy of information\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNotes on Contributors.  \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Putting Information First: Luciano Floridi and the Philosophy of Information (\u003ci\u003ePATRICK ALLO\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eKnowledge.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 The Value of Knowledge and the Pursuit of Survival (\u003ci\u003eSHERRILYN ROUSH\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Knowledge Transmissibility and Pluralistic Ignorance: A First Stab (\u003ci\u003eVINCENT F. HENDRICKS\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAgency.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Meeting Floridi’s Challenge to Artificial Intelligence from the Knowledge-Game Test for Self-Consciousness (\u003ci\u003eSELMER BRINGSJORD\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSemantic Information.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Information Without Truth (\u003ci\u003eANDREA SCARANTINO AND GUALTIERO PICCININI\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Information and Knowledge a la Floridi (\u003ci\u003eFRED ADAMS\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMethodology.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Abstraction, Law, and Freedom in Computer Science (\u003ci\u003eTIMOTHY COLBURN AND GARY SHUTE\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMetaphysics.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Structuralism and Information (\u003ci\u003eOTA VIO BUENO\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEthics.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Why Information Ethics Must Begin with Virtue Ethics (\u003ci\u003eRICHARD VOLKMAN\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReplies.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 The Philosophy of Information: Ten Years Later (\u003ci\u003eLUCIANO FLORIDI\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEpilogue.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Philosophy in the Information Age (\u003ci\u003eTERRELL WARD BYNUM\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408392986967,"sku":"9781444338676","price":19.71,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/putting-information-first-9781444338676","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}