Lunch Uncertain [Review of: Floridi, Luciano (2011) The Philosophy of Information (Oxford)]
Times Literary Supplement 5664 (22-23) (2011)
| Abstract | The usual way to try to ground knowing according to contemporary theory of knowledge is: We know something if (1) it’s true, (2) we believe it, and (3) we believe it for the “right” reasons. Floridi proposes a better way. His grounding is based partly on probability theory, and partly on a question/answer network of verbal and behavioural interactions evolving in time. This is rather like modeling the data-exchange between a data-seeker who needs to know which button to press on a food-dispenser and a data-knower who already knows the correct number. The success criterion, hence the grounding, is whether the seeker’s probability of lunch is indeed increasing (hence uncertainty is decreasing) as a result of the interaction. Floridi also suggests that his philosophy of information casts some light on the problem of consciousness. I’m not so sure. | |||||||||
| Keywords | epistemology information theory knowledge Gettier Problems belief symbol grounding probability certainty uncertainty Luciano Floridi | |||||||||
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