Philosophy of Emerging Media

Juliet Floyd is Professor of Philosophy, Boston University. She is the author of many articles on the history of eighteenth and twentieth century philosophy of mathematics, logic, and aesthetics and co-editor of Future Pasts: The Analytic Tradition in Twentieth Century Philosophy (Oxford, 2001) and Philosophical Explorations of the Legacy of Alan Turing: Turing 100 (Springer, forthcoming).James E. Katz is the Feld Professor of Emerging Media Studies at Boston University. Co-author of numerous books, including The Social Media President: Barack Obama and The Politics of Citizen Engagement, he also holds two patents. Prior to coming to Boston University in 2012, he was the Board of Governors Professor of Communication at Rutgers University.

"[T]his book is an excellent introduction to the philosophical issues concerning the emergent media. The breadth of philosophical scope and the variety of philosophical positions applied to the issues make it particularly valuable. It opens numerous paths to further development of genuinely philosophical approaches to the media from a varied menu of approaches that utilize most contemporary philosophical schools...the work is excellent in offering ideas forfurther development and application." -- Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

• Introduction (Juliet Floyd and James E. Katz, Boston University) ; I. Ontology ; 1 Towards a Science of Emerging Media (Barry Smith, Buffalo) ; 2 Media and Their Emergence: The Ontology (Peter Simons, Trinity College Dublin) ; 3 New Realism and Media: From Documentality to Normativity (Maurizio Ferraris, Turin) ; 4 The Pygmalionic Gene: Neo-Romanticism for Emerging Media (Victor J. Krebs, Pontifical Catholic University of Peru) ; II. Perceptions, Perspectives, Transformations ; 5 Changing Philosophical Concerns about Emergence and Media as Emerging: The Long View ; (J.E. Katz, E. Robinson, Boston University) ; 6 Human Nature and Social Transformation (Gordon Graham, Princeton) ; 7 New Media, Old Concerns: Heidegger Revisited (Zsuzsanna Kondor, Hungarian Academy of Sciences) ; 8 From Traditional Documentation to Network Media (Neal Thomas, Univ. North Carolina Chapel Hill) ; III. Time, Fiction, Narrative ; 9 Emerging Media and the Philosophy of Time (Kristof Nyiri, Hungarian Academy of Sciences) ; 10 Bingewatching Television with Walt and Omar (Harvey Cormier, SUNY Stonybrook) ; 11 Media, Emergence and the Analogy of Art (John Haldane, Edinburgh/Notre Dame) ; 12 Sadness and Photography: Barthes and Benjamin (Ilit Ferber, Tel Aviv) ; IV. Emergence, Agency, Mind ; 13 Turing, Wittgenstein and Emergence (Juliet Floyd, Boston University) ; 14 Where is My Mind? Anscombe on Agency (Valerierie Aucouturier, Paris) ; 15 Agential Properties in Computer Games (John Richard Sageng, Oslo) ; 16 Will Emerging Media Create a Collective Mind? (David Ramsay Steele, Chicago) ; V. Symbols, Speech Acts ; 17 Plato and Aristotle on Writing (David Roochnik, Boston University) ; 18 Leibniz on Symbolism as a Cognitive Instrument (Sybille Kramer, Freie Universitat, Berlin) ; 19 Semantic and Pragmatic Stances toward Emerging Media (John Grey, Boston University) ; 20 Speech Acts and the Internet: Austin to Bourdieu and Fraenkel (Bruno Ambroise, CNRS) ; VI. Social Media, Big Data ; 21 Explorations in the Grammar of <"Being in touch>": From Locke to Winch, from SMS to Skype (Richard H.R. Harper, Microsoft Research) ; 22 Emerging Categories of Media Institutions (Lars Lundsten, Helsinki) ; 23 Philosophy of Critique: the New Media (Ronald E. Day, Indiana) ; 24 Big Data and The Big <"Conversation>" (Gary King, Harvard (interview)) ; CODA: Conclusion and a Perspective on Future Directions (Juliet Floyd, James Katz, and Elizabeth Robinson, Boston University)