The Logic of Information: A Theory of Philosophy as Conceptual Design

raleighm | 95 points

Thank’s for sharing! I’ve been meaning to check out Luciano Floridi’s work for a long time.

I’m a bit skeptical of the whole program because philosophy is one of the last bastions of resistance to the overall informationalization of life, and one of the few disciplines that’s managed to remain somewhat free of a reduction to the concept of information; I don’t want it to be messed with. That said this sounds like quite the work. The reviewer has some interesting criticisms though.

voidhorse | 4 years ago

Digital Philosophy [1] is not a new idea. As per the Wikipedia article it's a re-interpretation of Monist metaphysics.

There's no easier way to say this without triggering people who haven't yet reasoned their way to these positions so I am just going to say it.

The concept of a Monad[2] in digital philosophy corresponds to the concept of God in Christian philosophy.

See Computational Trinitarianism for more [3]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_philosophy

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monad_(philosophy)

[3] https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/computational+trinitarianism

ukj | 4 years ago

Need to study a bit more but is it true that iphone user must know less than Apple. Not true in many software as programmer of say office may know its level of details but may surprise how users are using their software. In fact many examples like Visual Basic, HyperCard, Ibm token ring, xerox music and ... sorry maker has more power but understand their own technology and how it can be used ... why we need to ask users and why many hw/Sw abandon.

But the staging is interesting. Let us hear more.

ngcc_hk | 4 years ago

With Descartes and became central replacing the old Aristotelian metaphysics. With Frege's and Wittgenstein's linguistic turn, logic, in the form of a theory of meaning, became central as Dummett and Davidson suggested. With Williamson, metaphysics was again central.

Thoughts on this for those with a philosophy background? Is philosophy so focused...?

ezequiel-garzon | 4 years ago