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Call for Chapter Abstracts for the Book Luciano Floridi`s Philosophy of Technology: Critical Reflections

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Call for Chapter Abstracts for the Book Luciano Floridi`s Philosophy of Technology: Critical Reflections Publisher: Springer (Philosophy of Engineering and Technology Book Series) Book Series Editor in Chief: Vermaas, P. The Volume Editor: Ibo van de Poel Guest Editor for the volume: Hilmi Demir. Chapter submissions until June 15, 2010 to hilmi@bilkent.edu.tr The collected volume focuses on Luciano Floridi`s Philosophy of Technology and will explore both the philosophical and empirical aspects of his theory. Here is a sample of the issues that we intend to cover within the framework of the collected volume. 1. The nature of information 2. Ethics and Information Technology 3. Knowledge and Technology 4. The notion of `being informed` and its formal analysis 5. Floridi`s notion of `Levels of Abstraction` 6. Philosophy of Computing and AI 7. Philosophy of Technology and Education 8. Floridi`s notion of `infospher