Philosophical Engineering

Toward a Philosophy of the Web

Häftad, Engelska, 2013

Av Harry Halpin, Alexandre Monnin, France) Halpin, Harry (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA and Institut de Recherche et d’Innovation du Centre Pompidou, France) Monnin, Alexandre (Institut de Recherche et d’Innovation du Centre Pompidou

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This is the first interdisciplinary exploration of the philosophical foundations of the Web, a new area of inquiry that has important implications across a range of domains. Contains twelve essays that bridge the fields of philosophy, cognitive science, and phenomenologyTackles questions such as the impact of Google on intelligence and epistemology, the philosophical status of digital objects, ethics on the Web, semantic and ontological changes caused by the Web, and the potential of the Web to serve as a genuine cognitive extensionBrings together insightful new scholarship from well-known analytic and continental philosophers, such as Andy Clark and Bernard Stiegler, as well as rising scholars in “digital native” philosophy and engineeringIncludes an interview with Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the Web

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2013-12-27
Mått152 x 229 x 11 mm
Vikt281 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieMetaphilosophy
Antal sidor224
FörlagJohn Wiley and Sons Ltd
ISBN9781118700181

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Harry Halpin is Postdoctoral Associate with the World Wide Web Consortium at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a Visiting Researcher at the Institut de Recherche et d’Innovation du Centre Pompidou, France, as part of a European Commission–funded Marie Curie PHILOWEB project. His research interests range from the complex dynamics of tagging to the philosophical foundations of Anonymous. He is the author of Social Semantics: The Search for Meaning on the Web (2012), which analyzes the impact of the Web on theories of semantics.Alexandre Monnin is Head of Web and Metadata Research at the Institut de Recherche et d’Innovation du Centre Pompidou, France, and Associate Researcher at INRIA and CNAM. He has published research on tagging, the architecture of the Web, and its importance for ontology. In 2010, he organized the first interdisciplinary PhiloWeb conference and in 2012 he held the first international seminar on the topic, both at the Sorbonne. He co-initiated SemanticPedia, the semantic platform for Wikimedia projects in French.

Notes on ContributorsIntroductory NoteDUNCAN PRITCHARD AND LEE JOHN WHITTINGTON1 Luck as Risk and the Lack of Control Account of LuckFERNANDO BRONCANO-BERROCAL2 Strokes of LuckE. J. COFFMAN3 Luck Attributions and Cognitive BiasSTEVEN D. HALES AND JENNIFER ADRIENNE JOHNSON4 Frankfurt in Fake Barn CountryNEIL LEVY5 Luck and Free WillALFRED R. MELE6 You Make Your Own LuckRACHEL MCKINNON 7 Subject-Involving LuckJOE MILBURN8 The Modal Account of LuckDUNCAN PRITCHARD9 The Machinations of LuckNICHOLAS RESCHER10 Luck, Knowledge, and “Mere” CoincidenceWAYNE D. RIGGS11 The Unbearable Uncertainty ParadoxSABINE ROESER12 Getting Moral Luck RightLEE JOHN WHITTINGTONIndex