[Air-l] information and knowledge - II

[Andrew Wenn]

Hi everyone,

To add to Charles' suggestions on philosophical approaches, you  
should try:

Borgmann, A. 1999, Holding on to Reality: The Nature of Information  
at the Turn of the Millennium, University of Chicago Press, Chicago.

A very thorough readable, social semiotics inclined text. Borgmann is  
well respected in philosophical circles. You might also like to check  
out some responses to the book at:

http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/SPT/v6n1/


Cheers,

Andrew Wenn.



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On 16/10/2005, at 9:16 PM, Charles Ess wrote:

> More for the philosophically inclined...
>
> For the philosophical community that has emerged in the past 15  
> years or so
> around the Computers and Philosophy conferences, originally in  
> North America
> but now more spread about the planet (the 2nd Asian-Pacific CAP  
> conference
> was held this month in Bangkok, for example), much of this is  
> discussed in
> terms of a "computational turn" in philosophy, which in part means  
> a focus
> on how computation and the new venues / experiences / interactions  
> made
> possible by computing technologies helps / forces philosophers to  
> re-examine
> old questions and raise new ones.
> Broadly speaking, there is some consensus among this group (so far)  
> that
> "wisdom" would include an Aristotelian sense of _phronesis_ or  
> "practical
> wisdom" - a sense of wisdom that is apparently fairly cross- 
> cultural, for
> example, as it at least resonates with notions of wisdom found in  
> Confucian
> thought, some African traditions, etc.
> The discussion gets even more interesting in the work of Luciano  
> Floridi
> (Wolfson College, Oxford), whose information ontology turns  
> traditional
> philosophical ontology upside down and takes information as the basic
> building block of reality.
>
> 1. See Floridi's chapter in his Blackwell's Guide to the Philosophy of
> Information, titled, appropriately enough, "Information":
> http://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/~floridi/blackwell/chapters/chapter5.pdf
>
> 2.  Floridi has more recently argued for a specific view about the  
> relation
> between data and information in an article titled "Is Information  
> Meaningful
> Data?",
> that can be downloaded at
> http://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/~floridi/pdf/iimd.pdf
>
> 2.5  Finally, I've put up a modest documentation of a panel on  
> Information
> Ethics held in August, 2004, as part of the Computers and Philosophy
> Conference (CAP) at Carnegie Mellon, in which Floridi, Terrell Ward  
> Bynum,
> Bernd Carsten Stahl, Wallace Kohler, Kay Mathiesen, and May Thorseth
> represented their perspectives on information ethics and helped  
> collectively
> develop something of a cognitive map of the relationships between
> information ethics and other disciplines both within and beyond the
> boundaries of philosophy.
>
> <http://www.drury.edu/ess/CAP04/cap04infoethics.html>
>
> This map and overview will grow and change, of course, most  
> immediately as
> we pursue conversations with colleagues in Asia regarding  
> expectations of
> privacy and emerging data privacy protection guidelines - but as I  
> note
> there, participation and dialogue with many other geographical and  
> cultural
> domains of the globe are needed as well.  Nonetheless, I hope this  
> is at
> least a useful sketch and initial orientation for those interested in
> especially philosophical approaches to information ethics and  
> allied issues.
>
> Charles Ess
>
> Distinguished Research Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies
> Drury University
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>
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>
> Professor II, Globalization and Applied Ethics Programmes
> Norwegian University of Science and Technology
> NO-7491 Trondheim, Norway
> http://www.anvendtetikk.ntnu.no/pres/bridgingcultures.php
>
> Exemplary persons seek harmony, not sameness. -- Analects 13.23
>
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