Abstract
In his article Open Problems in the Philosophy of Information [1] Luciano Floridi presented a Philosophy of Information research program in the form of eighteen open problems, covering the following fundamental areas: Information definition, information semantics, intelligence/cognition, informational universe/nature and values/ethics. We revisit Floridi’s program, highlighting some of the major advances, commenting on unsolved problems and rendering the new landscape of the Philosophy of Information (PI) emerging at present. As we analyze the progress of PI we try to situate Floridi’s program in the context of scientific and technological development that have been made last ten years. We emphasize that Philosophy of Information is a huge and vibrant research field, with its origins dating before Open Problems, and its domains extending even outside their scope. In this paper, we have been able only to sketch some of the developments during the past ten years. Our hope is that, even if fragmentary, this review may serve as a contribution to the effort of understanding the present state of the art and the paths of development of Philosophy of Information as seen through the lens of Open Problems.
Highlights
In his programmatic paper Open Problems in the Philosophy of Information [1] based on the Herbert A
While the question of whether or not a Unified Theory of Information” (UTI) is feasible was answered in a controversial way by Capurro, Fleissner and Hofkirchner [52], Fleissner and Hofkirchner tried to lay the foundations for a project of unification reconciling legitimate claims of existing information concepts underlying science and technology with those characteristic of social sciences, humanities, and arts [53,54]
John Mingers who had developed a theory about data, information and meaning in the 90ies [80], advised in 2001 [81] to give greater consideration to neurophysiological processes in living systems when it comes to meaning and puts emphasis on embodied cognition drawing on the concept of autopoiesis by Maturana and Varela
Summary
In his programmatic paper Open Problems in the Philosophy of Information [1] based on the Herbert A. In 2008 Floridi edited the book Philosophy of Computing and Information-5 Questions [17] with contributions by Boden, Braitenberg, Cantwell-Smith, Chaitin, Dennett, Devlin, Dretske, Dreyfus, Floridi, Hoare, McCarthy, Searle, Sloman, Suppes, van Benthem, Winograd and Wolfram. “Luciano Floridi's Philosophy of Technology: Critical Reflections” is a topic of a special issue of Knowledge, Technology & Policy [29], published in June 2010, guest edited by Hilmi Demir It contains several articles on PI, addressing informational realism (Gillies), contradictory information (Allo), epistemology of AI (Ganascia), perceptual evidence and information (Piazza), ethics of democratic access to information (da Silva), logic of ethical information (Brenner), the demise of ethics (Byron), information as ontological pluralism (Durante), a critique of Information Ethics (Doyle), pre-cognitive semantic information (Vakarelov), an argument that typ-ken (an amalgam of type and token) drives infosphere (Gunji et al.). As we analyze the present state of the art of Philosophy of Information we try to situate the PI program in the context of scientific and technological developments that have been made over the past ten years and see their impact on the directions of PI research
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