The Logic of Information A Theory of Philosophy as Conceptual Design 1st Edition by Luciano Floridi ISBN 9780192570277 0192570277

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Author: Luciano Floridi

The Logic of Information A Theory of Philosophy as Conceptual Design 1st Edition Table of contents:

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 Maker’s 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

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 Borel 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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