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Εισαγωγή στη φιλοσοφία της πληροφορικής

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Η επανάσταση της πληροφορίας αλλάζει τον κόσμο σε βάθος, αμετάκλητα και απρόβλεπτα εδώ και αρκετό καιρό, κινούμενη με ρυθμό ιλιγγιώδη και σε ένα εύρος δίχως προηγούμενο.
Το νέο οικοσύστημα που δημιουργείται δεν απαιτεί μόνο νέες ρυθμίσεις, υψηλότερο επίπεδο εκπαίδευσης, κοινωνικές αλλαγές, μεγάλες επενδύσεις, αλλά και προσοχή εστιασμένη στα εννοιολογικά και δεοντολογικά προβλήματα που μπορεί να ανακύψουν στην πορεία αυτής της ζωτικής μετάβασης.
Αναπόφευκτα, η επανάσταση της πληροφορίας έχει επηρεάσει βαθιά τη δουλειά των φιλοσόφων: πώς σκέφτονται σχετικά με τα δικά τους προβλήματα, ποια προβλήματα θεωρούν ότι αξίζουν προσοχής, πώς διαμορφώνουν εννοιολογικά τις απόψεις τους, ακόμα και το λεξιλόγιο που χρησιμοποιούν. Έχει κάνει δυνατές νέες προσεγγίσεις και πρωτότυπες διερευνήσεις, έχει θέσει ή έχει βοηθήσει να εντοπιστούν νέα κρίσιμα ερωτήματα, έχει δώσει νέο νόημα σε κλασικά προβλήματα και σε παραδοσιακές θεματικές. Εν ολίγοις, η έρευνα στη φιλοσοφία από τη σκοπιά της θεωρίας της πληροφορικής και της επιστήμης των υπολογιστών γίνεται ολοένα πιο καινοτόμος, γόνιμη και διεισδυτική, παράγοντας ήδη πολλά ενδιαφέροντα και σημαντικά αποτελέσματα. Το βιβλίο αυτό επιχειρεί να παράσχει κάποια βασικά εννοιολογικά εργαλεία για μια κριτική προσέγγιση αυτού του νέου και ζωτικά σημαντικού ερευνητικού πεδίου.

462 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1996

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Luciano Floridi

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Luciano Floridi is currently Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information at the University of Oxford, Oxford Internet Institute, Governing Body Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford, Senior Member of the Faculty of Philosophy, Research Associate and Fellow in Information Policy at the Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford, and Distinguished Research Fellow of the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics.

Floridi is best known for his work on two areas of philosophical research: the philosophy of information and information ethics.

Between 2008 and 2013, he held the Research Chair in philosophy of information and the UNESCO Chair in Information and Computer Ethics at the University of Hertfordshire. He was the founder and director of the IEG, an interdepartmental research group on the philosophy of information at the University of Oxford, and of the GPI, the research Group in Philosophy of Information at the University of Hertfordshire. He was the founder and director of the SWIF, the Italian e-journal of philosophy (1995–2008).

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July 28, 2018
Whistle-stop hyperbole in the way of Continentals, but grounded by technical knowledge and uncliched. (Owing to its techno-optimism: it is uncliched to be a philosopher optimistic about tech.)
The history of modern thought has been characterised by an increasing gap between mind and reality. It is a process of epistemic detachment which has been irresistible ever since it began, and quite inevitably so. Knowledge develops as mind’s answer to the presence of the non-mental. It is the means whereby the subject establishes a minimal distance, and emancipates itself, from the object. The rise of dualism and the escalating interaction between traditional knowledge, as an object, and innovative knowledge, as a further reaction to it, has led to the emergence of a new world.


Notice the skilled and non-fatuous use of phenomenological blah! Chapter 2, his fast and very formal discussion of Boole, Gödel and Turing, took me about half a week. The tiny concluding chapter – in which he locates computers in the history of human freedom, as Hephaestean handmaids – makes me giddy. Slightly dated where it talks PC specs, and he loves a goofy neologism (“egology”, “corporeal membranes”), but grand, sceptical, grand, supervenient.


(His ‘Informational Nature of Personal Identity’ and ‘Turing’s Three Lessons’ are better.)

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July 4, 2017
Throughout the book, I couldn't find what he was trying to claim. Somewhat ambiguous. Including the Kurzweil's "Singularity is Near", there're are other books that are more understandable in philosophy/implication of computation.
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