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Title Philosophical engineering : toward a philosophy of the web
Published Hoboken : John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (pages)
Series Metaphilosophy series in philosophy
Metaphilosophy series in philosophy.
Contents COVER; TITLE PAGE; COPYRIGHT PAGE; CONTENTS; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS; CHAPTER 1: TOWARD A PHILOSOPHY OF THE WEB: FOUNDATIONS AND OPEN PROBLEMS; Introduction; 1. URIs: "Artifactualization" of Proper Names; 2. Denaturalizing Ontology: Philosophical Activity Redux; 3. Open Problems of the Philosophy of the Web; 3.1. What Is the Relationship of the Philosophy of the Web to a More General Philosophy?; 3.2. Does the Web Radically Impact Metaphysics, Ontology, and Epistemology?; 3.3. Can Human Cognition and Intelligence Genuinely Be Extended by the Web?
3.4. Does the Web Alter Our Domain-Specific Practices in a Manner That Demands a New Qualitative Analysis?3.5. The Future of the Philosophy of the Web; 4. Conclusion; Afterword; References; CHAPTER 2: PHILOSOPHY OF THE WEB: REPRESENTATION, ENACTION, COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE; Introduction; 1. Is Philosophy Part of Web Science?; 2. Representations and the Web; 3. Enactive Search; 4. Cognitive Extension and Collective Intelligence; 5. From the Extended Mind to the Web; 6. The Web as Collective Intelligence; 7. Conclusion; References
CHAPTER 3: THE WEB AS ONTOLOGY: WEB ARCHITECTURE BETWEEN REST, RESOURCES, AND RULES1. Introduction; 2. A Tale of Two Philosophies: URIs Between Proper Names and REST; 2.1. The Web Identity Crisis; 2.2. The Descriptivist Versus Rigidist Controversy; 2.3. Back to REST; 2.4. Resources as Shadows Symbolized Through Functions in REST; 3. From References to Referentialization; 3.1. Resources as Rules; 3.2. Referentialization Instead of Reference; 3.3. The Object as a Rule; 3.4. Frailty, Thy Name Is Resource; 4. Conclusion: Toward Ontological Politics; References
CHAPTER 4: WHAT IS A DIGITAL OBJECT?Technical Objects; Digital Objects; Not Yet a Conclusion; References; CHAPTER 5: WEB ONTOLOGIES AS RENEWAL OF CLASSICAL PHILOSOPHICAL ONTOLOGY; 1. Introduction; 2. Addresses, Reference, and Signification; 3. Floating Types and Recursive Process of Explicitation; 4. Conclusion: Points Still to Be Made Explicit; References; CHAPTER 6: BEING, SPACE, AND TIME ON THE WEB; Introduction; 1. Research Questions and Main Findings; 2. Existence in Web Space and Time; 2.1. The Facets of the Web; 2.2. Being on the Web; 2.3. Virtualization = Digitality + Linking
2.4. Web Space Is the Online Network2.5. Web Time Is Bergsonian; 3. How the Web Affects Traditional Space, Time, and Being; 3.1. Space and the Web; 3.2. Time and the Web; 3.3. Being and the Web; 3.4. Discussion; References; CHAPTER 7: EVALUATING GOOGLE AS AN EPISTEMIC TOOL; 1. Knowledge and the Web; 2. The Epistemic Role of Search Engines; 3. Dimensions of Epistemic Assessment; 4. Personalisation and Objectivity; Acknowledgments; References; CHAPTER 8: THE WEB-EXTENDED MIND; Introduction; Cognitive Extension and the Extended Mind; Extending the Mind: Cognitive Extension and the Current Web
Summary This is the first interdisciplinary exploration of the philosophical foundations of the Web, a new area of inquiry that has important implications across a range of domains. Contains twelve essays that bridge the fields of philosophy, cognitive science, and phenomenologyTackles questions such as the impact of Google on intelligence and epistemology, the philosophical status of digital objects, ethics on the Web, semantic and ontological changes caused by the Web, and the potential of the Web to serve as a genuine cognitive extensionBrings together insightful new
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject World Wide Web -- Philosophy
Internet -- Philosophy
Knowledge, Theory of.
Existential phenomenology.
epistemology.
Existential phenomenology
Knowledge, Theory of
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1118700171
9781118700174
9781118700167
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