How to Do Philosophy Informationally
Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3782:623-634 (2005)
| Abstract | In this paper we introduce three methods to approach philosophical problems informationally: Minimalism, the Method of Abstraction and Constructionism. Minimalism considers the specifications of the starting problems and systems that are tractable for a philosophical analysis. The Method of Abstraction describes the process of making explicit the level of abstraction at which a system is observed and investigated. Constructionism provides a series of principles that the investigation of the problem must fulfil once it has been fully characterised by the previous two methods. For each method, we also provide an application: the problem of visual perception, functionalism, and the Turing Test, respectively. | |||||||||
| Keywords | Information Method of abstraction Minimalism Constructionism | |||||||||
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