Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Computing and Information
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- ISBN 9780631229186
- Weight: 844g
- Dimensions: 178 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 12 Aug 2003
- Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This Guide provides an ambitious state-of-the-art survey of the fundamental themes, problems, arguments and theories constituting the philosophy of computing.
- A complete guide to the philosophy of computing and information.
- Comprises 26 newly-written chapters by leading international experts.
- Provides a complete, critical introduction to the field.
- Each chapter combines careful scholarship with an engaging writing style.
- Includes an exhaustive glossary of technical terms.
- Ideal as a course text, but also of interest to researchers and general readers.
Luciano Floridi is Associate Professor of Logic and Epistemology at the University of Bari and Markle Foundation Fellow at the University of Oxford, where he is a member of the Faculty of Philosophy and of the Sub-Faculty of Computing. He is the author of Sextus Empiricus: The Recovery and Transmission of Pyrrhonism (2002), Philosophy and Computing: An Introduction (1999), Internet: An Epistemological Essay (1997), and Scepticism and the Foundation of Epistemology: A Study in the Metalogical Fallacies (1996).
