Luciano Floridis Philosophy of Technology Critical Reflections [Paperback]

Information and communication technologies of the 20th century have had a significant impact on our daily lives. They have brought new opportunities as well as new challenges for human development. The Philosopher: Luciano Floridi claims that these new technologies have led to a revolutionary shift in our understanding of humanitys nature and its role in the universe. Florodis philosophical analysis of new technologies leads to a novel metaphysical framework in which our understanding of the ultimate nature of reality shifts from a materialist one to an informational one. In this world, all entities, be they natural or artificial, are analyzed as informational entities. This book provides critical reflection to this idea, in four different areas:? Information Ethics and The Method of Levels of Abstraction The Information Revolution and Alternative Categorizations of Technological Advancements Applications: Education, Internet and Information Science Epistemic and Ontic Aspects of the Philosophy of InformationThis philosophical analysis of new technologies leads to a novel metaphysical framework in which understanding of reality shifts from materialistic to informational. In this world, all entities, natural or artificial, are analyzed as informational entities.Part I: Information Ethics and The Method of Levels of Abstraction.- 1.Floridis Information Ethics as Macro-Ethics and Info-Computational Agent-Based Models;Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic.- 2.Artificial Agents, Cloud Computing, and Quantum Computing: Applying Floridis Method of Levels of Abstraction;M.J. Wolf, F.S. Grodzinsky and K.W. Miller.- 3.Levels of Abstraction and Morality;Richard Lucas.- 4.The Homo poieticus and the Bridge between Physis and Techne;Federica Russo.- Part II: The Information Revolution and Alternative Categorizations of Technological Advancements.- 1. In the Beginning Was the Word and Then Four Revolutions in the History of Information;Anthony F. Beavers.- 2. I Mean It! (And I Cannot Help Itls"