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A guide to the Floridi keys

Luciano Floridi: The philosophy of information. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011, xx+405pp, £37.50 HB

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  1. It is worth noting that Floridi is not the first to insist that information must be true. A notable predecessor is Dretske (1981). And Fetzer is not the first to deny this. A notable critic of Dretske on this point is Nunberg (1996). It is interesting that Floridi himself did not always hold the veridicality thesis, cf. Floridi (1999, 106): “disinformation and propaganda are still forms of information, no matter whether wrong or incorrect.”

  2. Incidentally both Floridi and Fetzer were anticipated by Dretske (1981, 45) when he wrote: “false information and mis-information are not varieties of information—any more than decoy ducks and rubber ducks are kinds of ducks.”

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Dunn, J.M. A guide to the Floridi keys. Metascience 22, 93–98 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-012-9679-9

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