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2. Luciano Floridi – The Philosophy of Information

Content:
What is the Philosophy of Information?
Open Problems in the Philosophy of Information
The Method of Levels of Abstraction
Semantic Information and the Veridicality Thesis
Outline of a Theory of Strongly Semantic Information
The Symbol Grounding Problem
Action-Based Semantics
Semantic Information and the Correctness Theory of Truth
The Logical Unsolvability of the Gettier Problem
The Logic of Being Informed
Understanding Epistemic Relevance
Semantic Information and the Network Theory of Account
Consciousness, Agents and the Knowledge Game
Against Digital Ontology
A Defence of Informational Structural Realism

I was decisively influenced by the following opinion:

„Is the universe digital or analogue? Where does information stack up alongside time and energy as a constituent of the universe? There are some great questions to ask about the nature of information and Floridi tries his best to give some academic rigor to the subject. I tried hard, really I did. But I barely understood this book. Information is more than data with meaning. A lot more. And information is more than something that flows through a computer. For example, how does DNS replicate if not with information guiding its actions. While humans make great use information, we are clearly not the only manufacturers of information. Honey bees, for example, communicate and trade information. So clearly, information is bigger than just us and our smartphones.”¹

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¹ Myles’s review:

 http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/395019725

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