Putting Information First

Patrick Allo is a Postdoctoral Fellow based at the Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium. He is also affiliated with the Information Ethics Group at the University of Oxford. His research focuses on the interface between the philosophy of logic, formal epistemology, and the philosophy of information.

• Notes on Contributors. Introduction.1 Putting Information First: Luciano Floridi and the Philosophy of Information (PATRICK ALLO).Knowledge.2 The Value of Knowledge and the Pursuit of Survival (SHERRILYN ROUSH).3 Knowledge Transmissibility and Pluralistic Ignorance: A First Stab (VINCENT F. HENDRICKS).Agency.4 Meeting Floridi’s Challenge to Artificial Intelligence from the Knowledge-Game Test for Self-Consciousness (SELMER BRINGSJORD).Semantic Information.5 Information Without Truth (ANDREA SCARANTINO AND GUALTIERO PICCININI).6 Information and Knowledge a la Floridi (FRED ADAMS).Methodology.7 Abstraction, Law, and Freedom in Computer Science (TIMOTHY COLBURN AND GARY SHUTE).Metaphysics.8 Structuralism and Information (OTA VIO BUENO).Ethics.9 Why Information Ethics Must Begin with Virtue Ethics (RICHARD VOLKMAN).Replies.10 The Philosophy of Information: Ten Years Later (LUCIANO FLORIDI).Epilogue.11 Philosophy in the Information Age (TERRELL WARD BYNUM).Index.