Logic of Information: A Theory of Philosophy as Conceptual Design

Luciano Floridi presents an innovative approach to philosophy, conceived as conceptual design, which explores how we make, transform, refine, and improve the objects of our knowledge. He argues that reality provides the data, to be understood as constraining affordances, and we transform them into information, like semantic engines. Models are not representations but interpretations understood as data elaborations of systems.

\n Format: Hardback
\n Length: 272 pages
\n Publication date: 07 March 2019
\n Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Luciano Floridi presents a groundbreaking approach to philosophy, envisioning it as a form of conceptual design. He delves into the intricate processes of creating, transforming, refining, and enhancing the objects of our knowledge. Floridi's starting point is that reality serves as the source of data, to be understood as constraining affordances, which we then transform into information, akin to semantic engines. It's important to note that this transformation or repurposing differs from portraying, picturing, photographing, photocopying, or replicating anything. Instead, it resembles cooking, where the dish does not represent the ingredients but utilizes them to create something entirely new. The reality of the dish and its properties are profoundly dependent on the reality and properties of the ingredients. Models, in contrast, are not representations understood as pictures but interpretations understood as data elaborations of systems. Thus, Luciano Floridi articulates and defends the thesis that knowledge is design, and philosophy is the ultimate manifestation of conceptual design. While entirely independent of Floridi's previous books, "The Philosophy of Information" (OUP 2011) and "The Ethics of Information" (OUP 2013), "The Logic of Information" both complements the existing volumes and presents fresh insights into the foundations of the philosophy of information.

\n Weight: 576g\n
Dimension: 165 x 240 x 26 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9780198833635\n \n