dc.contributor.author | Floridi, L. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-09-25T15:15:08Z | |
dc.date.available | 2013-09-25T15:15:08Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2012-07-28 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Floridi , L 2012 , ' Turing's three philosophical lessons and the philosophy of information ' , Philosophical Transactions A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences , vol. 370 , no. 1971 , pp. 3536-3542 . https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2011.0325 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1364-503X | |
dc.identifier.other | PURE: 2021532 | |
dc.identifier.other | PURE UUID: 63cf39ff-b665-4dd9-b9b8-70f454bb000f | |
dc.identifier.other | PubMed: 22711872 | |
dc.identifier.other | Scopus: 84862883494 | |
dc.identifier.other | WOS: 000306172800015 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2299/11646 | |
dc.description.abstract | In this article, I outline the three main philosophical lessons that we may learn from Turing's work, and how they lead to a new philosophy of information. After a brief introduction, I discuss his work on the method of levels of abstraction (LoA), and his insistence that questions could be meaningfully asked only by specifying the correct LoA. I then look at his second lesson, about the sort of philosophical questions that seem to be most pressing today. Finally, I focus on the third lesson, concerning the new philosophical anthropology that owes so much to Turing's work. I then show how the lessons are learned by the philosophy of information. In the conclusion, I draw a general synthesis of the points made, in view of the development of the philosophy of information itself as a continuation of Turing's work. This journal is © 2012 The Royal Society. | en |
dc.format.extent | 7 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Philosophical Transactions A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences | |
dc.subject | philosophical anthropology | |
dc.subject | fourth revolution | |
dc.subject | level of abstraction | |
dc.subject | Shannon | |
dc.subject | philosophy of information | |
dc.title | Turing's three philosophical lessons and the philosophy of information | en |
dc.contributor.institution | School of Humanities | |
dc.contributor.institution | Social Sciences, Arts & Humanities Research Institute | |
dc.contributor.institution | Philosophy | |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | |
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