{"product_id":"the-logic-of-information-a-theory-of-philosophy-as-conceptual-design-9780192847584","title":"The Logic of Information: A Theory of Philosophy as Conceptual Design","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Luciano Floridi\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Logic\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLuciano Floridi presents an innovative approach to philosophy, conceived as conceptual design. He explores how we make, transform, refine, and improve the objects of our knowledge. His starting point is that reality provides the data, to be understood as constraining affordances, and we transform them into information, like semantic engines. Such transformation or repurposing is not equivalent to portraying, or picturing, or photographing, or photocopying anything. It is more like cooking: the dish does not represent the ingredients, it uses them to make something else out of them, yet the reality of the dish and its properties hugely depend on the reality and the properties of the ingredients. Models are not representations understood as pictures, but interpretations understood as data elaborations, of systems. Thus, he articulates and defends the thesis that \u003cem\u003eknowledge is design\u003c\/em\u003e and philosophy is the ultimate form of \u003cem\u003econceptual design\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlthough entirely independent of Floridi's previous books, \u003cem\u003eThe Philosophy of Information\u003c\/em\u003e (OUP 2011) and \u003cem\u003eThe Ethics of Information\u003c\/em\u003e (OUP 2013), \u003cem\u003eThe Logic of Information\u003c\/em\u003e both complements the existing volumes and presents new work on the foundations of the philosophy of information.","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47565139312791,"sku":"9780192847584","price":2784.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780192847584.webp?v=1774697156","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-logic-of-information-a-theory-of-philosophy-as-conceptual-design-9780192847584","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}