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Date: Thu Aug 29 2002 - 10:58:23 MDT
On 29 Aug 2002 at 10:22, Luciano Floridi wrote:
> Dear Colleague,
> this is the updated CFP for the special issue of MINDS AND MACHINES,
> dedicated to the Philosophy of Information. I would be very grateful
> if you could distribute it to any interested party. I apologise for
> cross-posting and any unwanted redundancy. Best regards, Luciano
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> CALL FOR PAPERS
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> MINDS AND MACHINES
> http://www.wkap.nl/journalhome.htm/0924-6495
>
> SPECIAL ISSUE ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF INFORMATION
> GUEST EDITOR: LUCIANO FLORIDI
>
> Deadline: 31 January, 2003
> __________________________________________________
>
> In 1998, introducing _The Digital Phoenix, How Computers are Changing
> Philosophy_ Terrell Ward Bynum and James H. Moor acknowledged the
> emergence of a new force in the philosophical scenario:
>
> "From time to time, major movements occur in philosophy. These
> movements begin with a few simple, but very fertile, ideas -- ideas
> that provide philosophers with a new prism through which to view
> philosophical issues. Gradually, philosophical methods and problems
> are refined and understood in terms of these new notions. As novel and
> interesting philosophical results are obtained, the movement grows
> into an intellectual wave that travels throughout the discipline. A
> new philosophical paradigm emerges. [...] Computing provides
> philosophy with such a set of simple, but incredibly fertile notions
> -- new and evolving subject matters, methods, and models for
> philosophical inquiry. Computing brings new opportunities and
> challenges to traditional philosophical activities. [...] computing is
> changing the way philosophers understand foundational concepts in
> philosophy, such as mind, consciousness, experience, reasoning,
> knowledge, truth, ethics and creativity. This trend in philosophical
> inquiry that incorporates computing in terms of a subject matter, a
> method, or a model has been gaining momentum steadily."
>
> This new area of research has been defined as the Philosophy of
> Information (PI).
>
> PI is the new philosophical field concerned with
>
> a) the critical investigation of the conceptual nature and basic
> principles of information, including its dynamics (especially
> computing and information flow), utilisation (especially computer
> ethics issues) and sciences; and b) the elaboration and application of
> information-theoretic and computational methodologies to philosophical
> problems. PI attempts to provide a unified, explanatory theory of what
> information is, not a quantitative theory of data communication
> (information theory). On the theoretical side, for example, it
> includes the philosophy of AI and computing. From an environmental
> perspective, it legislates on what may count as information and how
> information should be adequately created and manipulated (information
> ethics).
>
> For more information, see "What is the Philosophy of Information?", a
> paper published in Metaphilosophy,
> http://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/~floridi/pdf/wipi.pdf
>
> This special issue of Minds and Machines provides the opportunity to
> researchers in different fields to submit papers in the following
> areas
>
> 1) metatheoretical issues concerning the foundation of PI;
> 2) methodological aspects of PI;
> 3) the information-turn in philosophy;
> 4) issues in specific areas of PI, such as the philosophy of AI,
> computational philosophy of science, information-theoretic approaches
> to epistemology, philosophy of language and philosophy of mind,
> computer ethics and hypertext theory, conceptual analysis of key
> issues in PI etc.
>
> Instructions for Authors are available at
> http://www.wkap.nl/journalhome.htm/0924-6495
> Inquiries and papers can be sent to:
> mailto://luciano.floridi@philosophy.oxford.ac.uk
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