If so, it would be a matter of education. 3 So Descartes is testing the means of acquiring knowledge to destruction. That’s the new power we need to understand and manage properly today. Five Books participates in the Amazon Associate program and earns money from qualifying purchases. The Philosophy of Information brings together the most important perspectives on information. We haven't found any reviews in the usual places. Information in the mind about something in the external world is a proper subset of the information in the external object. Once you start to understand the rhythm of that way of thinking, it’s mind-boggling. That’s interesting, but it’s no longer philosophy. Is there something you want to single out there as quintessential Turing? In order to support the cross-fertilization of theory and practice, the latest research is presented in this book. Then contemporary philosophy, from Wittgenstein onwards, has had as its central idea the philosophy of language: questions about meaning, semantics. So should a decision taken by a European court of justice be applied all over the world? Kant is a good antidote both to pointless speculation, the anything goes approach, and the purely logical one in which you make some hypothetical assumptions and see what you can deduce. Presumably this was because he wanted to reach a wide audience and had something important to say? I fear that ethics, or the moral discourse, has always been seen as subsidiary to whatever the mainstream orthodox way of doing philosophy was. It is about resilience. My simple view of Kant in the First Critique is that he explains how what we are constrains what we could possibly know. Luciano Floridi is Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information at the University of Oxford, Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute, and Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford. What I have learnt from Kant is an important lesson: when you discuss any philosophical problem there is one fundamental clarification that has to precede any discussion. He picks the best books on the philosophy of information. It does so systematically, by pursuing three goals. Luciano Floridi presents a book that will set the agenda for the philosophy of information. There are different vocabularies, different ways of speaking. What he did say is that because this question doesn’t provide the conditions of possibility for an answer – because we don’t know what ‘think’ is, and we don’t even know what a ‘machine’ is – we can’t answer it. In short, philosophy about reality, philosophy about our knowledge of reality, and then philosophy of the language of our knowledge of reality. Luciano Floridi presents a book that will set the agenda for the philosophy of information. Perhaps a better way of putting this is that you need to do some preparatory work, some ground breaking, in order to build the right kind of ethical understanding of your time. But we can run a test and if you can’t see a difference between the answers of a human and a machine, then the machine has passed the test. Every year, the Booker Prize judges whittle a year's worth of fiction down to a shortlist of six books, each competing for the title of the best novel of the year. Part of this connection between the philosophy and the ethics of information has very strong practical everyday consequences. The best books on The Philosophy of Information recommended by Luciano Floridi The Oxford professor of philosophy and 'the ethics of information' says methods for discussing the ethics of information technology have been latent in philosophy from its origins. In my case this has led to my role on Google’s Advisory Council. Meanwhile, there are more and more philosophical problems arising from new technology and new ways of living. Depending on the stage we are in our development, sometimes that ground-breaking work has to be metaphysical, sometimes it has to be epistemological, or semantic, or logical, and I would say today it has to be in terms of information. Hello Select your address Best Sellers Today's Deals Electronics Customer Service Books New Releases Home Computers Gift Ideas Gift Cards Sell It is easy to list other issues, such as the role of mass media in a digital world, and so forth. When it comes to the classic image of the myth of the cave, you can reinterpret the whole thing today in terms of the channel of communication and information theory: who gets access to which information. Chapter 1What is the philosophy of information? From Plato, to Descartes, to Russell — the last philosopher I know of who was good at this — philosophy has always had this valuable attitude of speaking to both sides of human interest: to the intellectual, the academic, the ivory tower; but also to the practical, ordinary aspects of the world. Not what reality is, not what we know about the nature of reality and what it is, not focused on just the means through which we make sense of our world through reality, but rather the technological and informational framework within which we make sense of our knowledge of reality. Sometimes you really have to stop looking for the essence of the ingredients but look at the effects that the ingredients have. Once control of information is recognised as a source of power, then any powerful entity wants to control this information. Luciano Floridi presents a book that will set the agenda for the philosophy of information. And that’s why Descartes wrote the Meditations in a language that was available to a well-educated person who didn’t have that much Latin. Kant helps us focus on real philosophical problems. It never gets old, it just gets richer in consequences. Chapter 2Open problems in the philosophy of information, Chapter 3The method of levels of abstraction, Chapter 4Semantic information and the veridicality thesis, Chapter 5Outline of a theory of strongly semantic information, Chapter 8Semantic information and the correctness theory of truth, Chapter 11Understanding epistemic relevance, Chapter 12Semantic information and the network theory of account, Chapter 13Consciousness agents and the knowledge game, Chapter 15A defence of informational structural realism, Chapter 9The logical unsolvability of the Gettier problem, Psychology / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition. Humankind. There is no established area yet of Philosophy of Information, and this Handbook can help shape one, making sure it is well grounded in scientific expertise. Comprises 26 newly-written chapters by leading international experts. The first is metatheoretical. Much better to read it that way than suggesting that we are living in The Matrix. Each chapter combines careful scholarship with an engaging writing style. Borders determined the limit of the law. The data are the ingredients of our dish. On top of that you have politics versus the corporate world, because politics and Europe defend one side, America and the corporate world the other. Republic Read 8 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. 1 Five Books interviews are expensive to produce. It’s only through understanding what information is and what it means that we can start to grapple with the problem of privacy or any other issue that arises out of new technology. It works in the same way that you benchmark a particular product by testing it in extreme conditions, so that, when you put the product on the market, it is robust. You’re completely right. There’s something of Charles Sanders Peirce in this, you’re right. 44 ratings. show more. So what Turing tells us is that you need to be clear about the level of abstraction at which your discussion is taking place. His most recent books are: The Philosophy of Information (OUP, 2011), Information: A Very Short Introduction (OUP, 2010), and The Cambridge Handbook of Information and Computer Ethics (CUP, 2010). Search the world's most comprehensive index of full-text books. Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25. There’s an emphasis in Lyotard’s book on the connection between politics and technology, the politics which manipulate and affect technologies and so impact how we live. The Turing test has in it a Kantian lesson. The book describes what the philosophy of information is, its problems, and its method of levels of abstraction. Added to basket. Read reviews from world’s largest community for readers. Once you move into cyberspace or the infosphere, all of a sudden there are no borders. That shows two things. The point I try to glean from that particular feature in the great architecture of the Republic is the following: some people have their attention captured constantly by social media – it could be by cats on Facebook. Luciano Floridi is Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information at the University of Oxford, Director of Research and Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute, and Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford. We all know that he couldn’t write, no matter how much he tried. Unfortunately ‘level of abstraction’ has a technical sense in computer science which is often misunderstood in philosophy because there are no levels – levels of abstraction don’t come in a hierarchy. Information philosophy defines human knowledge as immaterial information in a mind, or embodied in an external artifact that is an information structure (e.g., a book), part of the sum of all human knowledge. Or there is speculation in the manner of a Sudoku game or a chess problem. There’s a lot of philosophy of that sort — especially the philosophy of technology, and some popular philosophy — that’s just pure discourse. You do a philosophy of information and try to extract from that lessons that can inform your ethical discourse. It is not popularising philosophy, it is not making philosophy cheap, it is not philosophy for dummies, it is philosophy made interesting to interested people. If you take away Mary from ‘Mary knows that p’ all that’s left is ‘that p’, and ‘that p’ is just that piece of information. £7.99. If you take the view that semantic information is broadly speaking delivered as a question plus an answer, then those who control the questions shape the answers. A classic can be read and re-read, and re-interepreted. My library And so on. So many issues could explode as a result of this. Information is constrained by the data: if you jump out of the third floor window, you’ll break your neck. Its metatheoretical goal is to describe what the philosophy of information is, its problems, approaches, and methods. This is a selection of papers that you’ve chosen. The best analogy here is a spark somewhere where dynamite has been stored. If you've enjoyed this interview, please support us by donating a small amount. Scepticism in Descartes is a matter of increasing the pressure and showing how much his ideas can actually withstand. Its analytic goal is to answer several key theoretical questions of great philosophical interest, arising from the investigation of semantic information. Read Read. “If you take the knowing subject away from epistemology all you’re left with is information.”. What Kant tells us is that we process input (the message) from the world (the source of the message) – what we’d now call data. He is an AISB and BCS Fellow, Editor in Chief of Philosophy & Technology and of the Synthese Library, and was Chairman of EU Commission's 'Onlife' research group. Provides a complete, critical introduction to the field. One of these principles – privacy – is robustly defended in Europe and by the European Union in the European Court of Justice. £20.00 £17.99. Outgrowing God. Then society switched to a focus on power being expressed through the control of information. It seems to have exploded beyond all proportion, taking more space than it really should. The Philosophy of Information is a lovely source of ideas, and also a wonderful indication of how much there might be to gain for philosophy by looking at contemporary computer science.” – Staffan Angere, Theoria “This is an ambitious book … there is a great deal to admire in this book, including much to admire philosophically. PI is the philosophical field concerned with (1) the critical investigation of the conceptual nature and basic principles of information, including its dynamics, utilisation, Our Best New Philosophy Books. Again, this seems to be a small issue, but it’s not. Unfortunately they missed Turing’s answer to that question, which is that it is “too meaningless to deserve discussion.” He didn’t ask that question in the paper. People may want to know why this issue is so important. Anyone who tries to refute scepticism is wasting their time and no decent philosopher has taken that sort of speculation very seriously. 3.79 out of 5 stars. Not at all. Hardback Added to basket. 5 32% (14) 4 32% (14) 3 23% (10) 2 11% (5) 1 2% (1) Book ratings by Goodreads. We used to think that power was about either the creation or the control of things, that it was about the means of production of goods. 2 Descartes is acting like an engineer testing ideas. As you read through the topics on my site, I encourage you to make notes and select books to further pursue your interests. Read I think we see a similar phenomenon today. We publish at least two new interviews per week. As the only philosopher there I wear the ethics hat and I’m supposed to be the one who provides input, feedback, suggestions, and recommendations on the ethics of the ‘right to be forgotten’ issue. We didn’t study it when we were students, partly because we didn’t realise that the glasses were on our noses. It’s quite extraordinary. I find reading Kant a bit like understanding cricket as a foreigner: hard to get at first, but once you get it, it’s very enjoyable. The Philosophy of Information book. And mind that the same people who complain about philosophy tend to forget that we shall be studying good contemporary philosophy in a thousand years when good contemporary science will have been superseded. Margaret Busby, chair of this year's judging panel, discusses the six books that made the cut in 2020. His most recent books are: The Philosophy of Information (OUP, 2011), Information: A Very Short Introduction (OUP, 2010), and The Cambridge Handbook of Information and Computer Ethics (CUP, 2010). First of all, it’s a clash between two fundamental ethical principles, which, so far, thanks to lack of technology and a different culture, had never encountered each other head to head. It’s not talking to its time and to relevant problems that are of genuine concern. So the fourth chapter in this particular history is the philosophy of information understood as something more central, from our perspective, and for our time. There is a reason for this. As I said near the beginning of this interview, I strongly believe we have been doing the philosophy of information without knowing it. The music is sent by the radio, but it is not about and does not “represent” the radio. This is why this particular spark has ignited a huge, international debate. The perspectives of experts from beyond the origins of IQ in computer science are included: library and information science practitioners and academics, philosophers of information, of engineering and technology, and of science are all contributors to this volume. That’s not the point. The Fourth Revolution: How the Infosphere is Reshaping Human Reality, Sextus Empiricus: The Transmission and Recovery of Pyrrhonism, The Best Fiction of 2020: The Booker Prize Shortlist, High School Teachers Recommend Books by Subject. Read. £20.00 £17.99. Some of these people can actually unchain themselves and acquire a better sense of what reality is, what the world really is about. Hardback Added to basket. It was not about the production of experiences or services. The people chained in front of the wall are effectively watching television, or glued to some social media. The Essential Turing There’s a lot of philosophy from the ancient Greeks to the present day that discusses what we now think of as the philosophy of information, it’s just that it wasn’t called that, and the focus of our society, our cultural interest, wasn’t on this particular concept. That’s a very nice way of putting it. Then through to modernity where you have to have a complete account of reality and then do the ethics – Kant is a classic example of this. Similarly ‘Paris is the capital of France’ or ‘a piece of toast’ or ‘water is H2O’ are just information. Selecting only one, perhaps the most fundamental, lesson that I learnt from Lyotard relates to the socio-political aspects of technology. It is destined to become a classic. The other, freedom of expression, is in the cultural DNA of America and the corporate world. The reason Lyotard’s book is on my list is that I read it when I was too young, and I misunderstood it badly and didn’t think much of it. Kant has a lesson that we still have to learn which is that any form of naïve realism — based on the way the world seems to me, or the way science tells me the world is — should not be taken seriously. The politics of information is a notion that we need to explore much more deeply than we have done so far. What is the responsibility of those who have, as it were, unchained themselves from the constant flow, the constant grab of attention of everyday media, and are able to step back, literally step out of the cave? So you also have an American versus EU fight. The philosophical discourse has always included an interest in what we would today call information. Rating details. In 2014, he was on Google’s advisory council to discuss the outcome of the recent “right to be forgotten ruling” made by the European Court of Justice. You test a car in extreme conditions. Five Books aims to keep its book recommendations and interviews up to date. The quintessential Turing for philosophy is certainly the Turing test as described in The Imitation Game. What we’re seeing today is the very beginning of another switch, from power over things, to power over information, to power about the questions that shape the answers that give the information about things. Plato is a great philosopher of information without the word being there. by Alan Turing It’s intellectual fun, but ultimately pointless. Philosophy has a major role to play today. Can you begin by saying something about the philosophy of information? Is there an example of that, of a specific technology affected in this way? You get a virtue ethics perspective following from what it is to be a complete, well-functioning, human being. It does so systematically, by pursuing three goals. As a side benefit, a book like this can facilitate contacts and collaboration among diverse academic milieus sharing a common interest in information. by Jean-Francois Lyotard In the Turing test, the level of abstraction is provided by the questioning game and the comparison of the two players at the level of their abilities to understand questions and answer them meaningfully. From Descartes, through Hume, even to Kant (not the most accessible philosopher, but at least he made an attempt), all the way down to Russell, we have this double channel of communication. Nobody would dream of driving that car in those conditions. Comprising over thirty chapters by a team of international contributors the Handbook is divided into four parts: Governments and empires all want to control information. Read. So it sounds as if you are saying that there’s been an ‘informational turn’ in philosophy, almost like the linguistic turn in the 20th century, and that it’s triggered a new understanding of philosophy’s past, this time inspired by digital technology. This little spark has made these two giants fight each other. It includes major technical approaches, while also setting out the historical backgrounds of information as well as its contemporary role in many academic fields. A complete guide to the philosophy of computing and information. And so on. It’s interesting how you personally have been drawn in from your work on the philosophy of information to moral and political debates about privacy in the age of the Internet as an advisor to Google on the so-called ‘right to be forgotten’. The Philosophy of Information by Floridi, Luciano at AbeBooks.co.uk - ISBN 10: 0199232393 - ISBN 13: 9780199232390 - Oxford University Press, Usa - 2013 - Softcover Scepticism in the Meditations is to be understood technologically. Your second choice is another classic, René Descartes’s Meditations. Amazon.in - Buy The Philosophy of Information book online at best prices in India on Amazon.in. When I was a graduate student, I was looking for a way of discussing some of the contemporary issues of information technology from a philosophical perspective that would be well informed by past relevant theorizing. This is, ‘Does that question make sense to us given the conditions of possibility of the debate?’ When we overstep the limits of what we can process, the information that it is sensible to ask about, then we know that we are stepping into pure metaphysics. Or do we have to exercise toleration? Meditations on First Philosophy You’ve chosen as your first book Plato’s Republic – a great work of philosophy, but what’s the connection with information? Buy The Philosophy of Information by Luciano Floridi from Waterstones today! We just accumulate new chapters. Should Europe legislate for the whole world? Why We Drive. by René Descartes Descartes wants to doublecheck that the science we’re building is going to be so robust that even when you run the most insane test it will still work. Philosophy of Information book. Then in the medieval period religious metaphysics determined the ethics. He’s another of my heroes, another figure in the history of the philosophy of information, and if I’d had six book choices I’d have included him. Among his recognitions, he has been appointed the Gauss Professor by the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, and is recipient of the APA's Barwise Prize, the IACAP's Covey Award, and the INSEIT's Weizenbaum Award. The Oxford professor of philosophy and 'the ethics of information' says methods for discussing the ethics of information technology have been latent in philosophy from its origins. Critique of Pure Reason When I studied philosophy there weren’t any courses on the philosophy of information so I’m not exactly sure what it is. The Postmodern Condition Versions of structural realism in philosophy of science support this view. Read. British historian Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of Jerusalem: the Biography, recommends books that capture the historical ups and downs of this ever-changing city, but also its vitality, including its irresistible cuisine. This book lays down, for the first time, the conceptualfoundations for this new area of research. 5 by Plato Its introductory goal is to help the reader to gain a better grasp of the complex and multifarious nature of the various concepts and phenomena related to information. But in ethics, for instance, when you discuss what it takes to make the right decision, it takes a well-grounded rational, well-informed agent. The relation between the dish and the ingredients is not one of representation, but one of constraining affordances: given those ingredients/data there are only a few ways of cooking/knowing that make sense and transform them into the right dish/information. Free delivery on qualified orders. One is privacy, which wasn’t even in the index of practical ethics textbooks in the 1980s, but we had treated as a fundamental principle of a liberal democratic society for a very long time. It’s a bit like saying you hear music on the radio. I hope this is helpful, and enjoy! Read In essence here Plato, by addressing these questions, is giving us a lesson in the philosophy of information. Jerusalem is one of the most beautiful cities in the world and a place of longing for three faiths—and yet we know it mostly as a place of strife and conflict. The Logic of Information: A Theory of Philosophy as Conceptual Design by Luciano Floridi Hardcover $39.95 Customers who viewed this item also viewed Page 1 of 1 Start over Page 1 of 1 This shopping feature will continue to load items when the Enter key is pressed. I came across a paper by Karl Popper entitled “Epistemology without the knowing subject,” and all of a sudden I realised that if you take the knowing subject away from epistemology all you’re left with is information. This essay is the first attempt to analyse the nature of PI systematically. Then came modernity as the age of the centrality of epistemology, the philosophy of knowledge. Luciano Floridi presents a book that will set the agenda for the philosophy of information. If you look at a house, you can look at it from the perspective of the owners, the council, economic, a lawyer’s perspective – these are all different levels of abstraction. Today Descartes speaks more directly to us if you understand him as the equivalent of an engineer testing a product. People who don’t know much about the history of philosophy complain that we never solve problems. The other principle is free speech. To this oversimplified caricature we could add another stage: the information turning point. That’s fundamental. Should an organisation like Google be forced to remove links in all its search engines including Google.com or not? For Aristotle it was subsidiary to a metaphysics of anthropology, the question of what a human being is. Alice Roberts . It is not an intellectual game, it is not by someone who has time and money to waste wondering whether he exists. In Epistemology the foundation of knowledge requires some initial of information that you need to justify, warrant, and support. Computational and information‐theoretic research in philosophy has become increasingly fertile and pervasive, giving rise to a wealth of interesting results. I re-read it when I was more mature and now realise that there were fundamental lessons and extraordinary insights there that I had missed completely when I was an undergraduate. We might find a point of agreement, in which case it covers both. The philosophy of information is a new area of research. But I would disagree with the idea that ethics comes second in importance. The analogy here is, once again, with cooking. For us, today, it is pure speculation when there is no way of being wrong. Hardback Added to basket. Every philosophy has to look at the nature of ultimate things, it has to be eschatological in that sense, so ethics and, indeed, the political discourse, are the end of the intellectual journey. So presumably, if you’re a Kantian, there must be logical limits to the kind of information that you could actually acquire. Luciano Floridi presents a book that will set the agenda for the philosophy of information. Descartes chose to write that book in the vernacular, in French rather than in Latin which was the common language of intellectuals of his day in 17th century France. Read The Philosophy of Information book reviews & author details and more at Amazon.in. When people say ‘What’s the big deal, it’s only a spark?’ they focus on the spark, and miss the dynamite. If you are the interviewee and would like to update your choice of books (or even just what you say about them) please email us at editor@fivebooks.com. Julian Baggini. I would like to invite them to eat a steak made from a woolly mammoth and then tell me there has been no progress in cuisine. Are they supposed to go back and violently force the people inside to get away, as the text says? 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