Turing's three philosophical lessons and the philosophy of information |
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Authors: | Floridi Luciano |
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Affiliation: | Research Chair in Philosophy of Information, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK. l.floridi@herts.ac.uk |
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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. |
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