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BL
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624114
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Floridi, Luciano,1964-
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| Title & Author
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The philosophy of information /\ Luciano Floridi
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| Publication Statement
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Oxford ;New York :: Oxford University Press,, 2011
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xviii, 405 p. :: ill. ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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9780199232383
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: 0199232385
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [372]-399) and index
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| Contents
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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 -- Unsterstanding epistemic relevance -- Semantic information and the network theory of account -- Consciousness, agents, and the knowledge game -- Against digital ontology -- A defense of informational structural realism
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| Abstract
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Examines the conceptual nature and basic principles of information
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Information theory-- Philosophy
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Information science-- Philosophy
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| LC Classification
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Q360.F58 2011
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