Where are we in the philosophy of information? the Bergen podcast

Many thanks to Sverre Helge Bolstad and Johannes Ringheim for the following material, which I cut and paste here:

21.06.06, University of Bergen, Norway

Luciano Floridi: "Where are we in the philosophy of information?"
(Part I, introduction to PI)

Luciano Floridi, University of Oxford, is a philosopher and has worked with the concept of information and philosophical questions connected to information technology in several books and articles. He is a pioneer in the field and has, through his activities, contributed greatly to defining the field of philosophy of information (PI). Luciano Floridi has written the book Philosophy and Computing (1999) and he is the editor of The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Computing and Information (2004).

In this podcast from a seminar at the University of Bergen he talks about the foundations of the philosophy of informationt and what PI is, and why we need it in a "databased" society. He talks about dimensions of information and goals of the philosophy of information.

Listen now! (49:36min / 22.7MB)

Luciano Floridi´s webpage at the University of Oxford

This podcast is published under a Creative Commons license

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