The rise of classic Euro-American philosophy of technology in the 1950s originally emphasized the importance of technologies as material entities and their mediating influence within human experience. Recent decades, however, have witnessed a subtle shift toward reflection on the activity from which
Philosophical engineering : toward a philosophy of the web
β Scribed by Harry Halpin; Alexandre Monnin
- Publisher
- Wiley Blackwell
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 218
- Series
- Metaphilosophy series in philosophy
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Table of Contents
Content: Notes on Contributors vii 1 Toward a Philosophy of the Web: Foundations and Open Problems ALEXANDRE MONNIN AND HARRY HALPIN 1 2 Philosophy of the Web: Representation, Enaction, Collective Intelligence HARRY HALPIN, ANDY CLARK, AND MICHAEL WHEELER 21 3 The Web as Ontology: Web Architecture Between REST, Resources, and Rules ALEXANDRE MONNIN 31 4 What Is a Digital Object? YUK HUI 52 5 Web Ontologies as Renewal of Classical Philosophical Ontology PIERRE LIVET 68 6 Being, Space, and Time on the Web MICHALIS VAFOPOULOS 77 7 Evaluating Google as an Epistemic Tool THOMAS W. SIMPSON 97 8 The Web-Extended Mind PAUL R. SMART 116 9 Given the Web, What Is Intelligence, Really? SELMER BRINGSJORD AND NAVEEN SUNDAR GOVINDARAJULU 134 10 The Web as a Tool for Proving PETROS STEFANEAS AND IOANNIS M. VANDOULAKIS 149 11 Virtual Worlds and Their Challenge to Philosophy: Understanding the "Intravirtual" and the "Extravirtual" JOHNNY HARTZ SORAKER 168 12 Interview with Tim Berners-Lee HARRY HALPIN AND ALEXANDRE MONNIN 181 13 Afterword: Web Philosophy BERNARD STIEGLER 187 Index 199
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