What is the Philosophy of Information?
a new philosophical discipline, concerned with
a)the critical investigation of the conceptual
nature and basic principles of information, including its dynamics (especially
computation and flow), utilisation and sciences; and
b)the elaboration and application of information-theoretic
and computational methodologies to philosophical problems.
L. Floridi
"What is the Philosophy of Information?", Metaphilosophy, 2002
"Open Problems in the Philosophy of Information", The Herbert Simon
Lecture in Philosophy and Computing, CAP@CMU (Computing and Philosophy
Conference, Carnegie Mellon University), 10 August 2001
http://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/~floridi/papers.htm
What is the nature and meaning of information?
That is the focus for this field of inquiry -
the application of philosophical method to information phenomena.
Philosophers, intellectuals, and scholars have been thinking
about information for decades,
even centuries. Sometimes, that thinking
has been categorized by another name,
such as social epistemology, semantics, rhetoric, information science,
library science,
information ethics, cybernetics, and memetics. Sometimes, that
thinking takes a narrow, specialized view
of information, as with traditional information theory in the communications
field.
This web site helps to create a new category of synthesis
to collect all deep thinking about information into a coherent whole, from
which new meta-views and perspectives can be achieved.
It offers definitions of the philosophy of information, universal definitions
of information,
clarification of general information problems, and attempts to solve
those problems.
The site will evolve along with this new field.
This site is currently hosted at the University of North Texas, in my
personal web directory.
I am a graduate student at UNT. I was inspired to create this
site after reading the work
of Joseph Nitecki (provided by joanne twining), Mark Alfino, Luciano
Floridi, and Ken Herold.
I am also the moderator of the Yahoo Group Philosophy-of-Information
(philofinfo). I welcome
all comments on this site.
J.R. Castledine
PoI web editor
Organizations
National Coalition of Independent Scholars
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
North Texas Philosophical
Society
American Philosophical
Association
European Association for Logic, Language
and Information
American Philosphical Society
International Center for Information
Ethics
International Association for Computing
and Philosophy
International Society for Ethics and
Information Technology
American Society for Information Science
and Technology
Society for Philosophy
and Technology
[philofinfo]
Philosophy of Information
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Philos-L
PHILOSOP
Humanist Discussion
Group
Humanities & Social Sciences
Online (H-Net)
jiscmail
(philosophy)
Contemporary
Philosophy of Mind: An Annotated Bibliography
Guide to
Philosophy on the Internet (includes Hippias and Noesis search)
Rhetoric web ring
Principia Cybernetica
epistemelinks
Stanford
Encyclopedia of Philosophy
The Philosophical
Lexicon
Blackwell
Philosophy Resource Center
Social Science Information
Gateway (SOSIG)
Philosophy
around the Web
Philosophy
in Cyberspace
The Radical Academy
Updated: March 9, 2003