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The Philosophy of Information as a Conceptual Framework

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The article contains the replies to the collection of contributions discussing my research on the philosophy of information.

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Notes

  1. [Socrates]: Writing, Phaedrus, has this strange quality, and is very like painting; for the creatures of painting stand like living beings, but if one asks them a question, they preserve a solemn silence. And so it is with written words; you might think they spoke as if they had intelligence, but if you question them, wishing to know about their sayings, they always say only one and the same thing [they are unary devices, in our terminology]. And every word, when [275e] once it is written, is bandied about, alike among those who understand and those who have no interest in it, and it knows not to whom to speak or not to speak; when ill-treated or unjustly reviled it always needs its father to help it; for it has no power to protect or help itself.

  2. Available online, see http://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/24/books/we-are-what-we-make.html

  3. I am most grateful to Scott Molony for having made me realise this point during one of our meetings on Information Ethics.

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  1. Research Chair in Philosophy of Information and GPI, University of Hertfordshire, de Havilland Campus, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, AL10 9AB, UK

    Luciano Floridi

  2. Faculty of Philosophy and IEG, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

    Luciano Floridi

  3. UNESCO Chair in Information and Computer Ethics, University of Hertfordshire, de Havilland Campus, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, AL10 9AB, UK

    Luciano Floridi

  4. Department of Philosophy, University of Hertfordshire, de Havilland Campus, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, AL10 9AB, UK

    Luciano Floridi

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Floridi, L. The Philosophy of Information as a Conceptual Framework. Know Techn Pol 23, 253–281 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12130-010-9112-x

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