Philosophy and Computing: An Introduction

by Luciano Floridi

Book Overview

Philosophy and Computing explores each of the following areas of technology: the digital revolution; the computer; the Internet and the Web; CD-ROMs and Mulitmedia; databases, textbases, and hypertexts; Artificial Intelligence; the future of computing.
Luciano Floridi shows us how the relationship between philosophy and computing provokes a wide range of philosophical questions: is there a philosophy of information? What can be achieved by a classic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415180252
• ISBN13: 9780415180252
• Release Date: July 1999
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.2"