domingo, 29 de julho de 2007

Cyberphilosophy: Um bom livro

Esta informação foi retirada da editora online Blackwell e o livro pode ser comprado online.

Description do livro Cyberphilosophy

1. This cutting edge volume provides an overview of the dynamic new field of cyberphilosophy - the intersection of philosophy and computing.
2. Offers an overview of the latest developments in the dynamic new field of cyberphilosophy.
3. Shows how computing is influencing all major areas of philosophy, and vice versa.
4. Comprises a selection of newly written articles by international scholars.
5. Articles are organised around five standard philosophical themes - minds, agency, reality, communication and ethics.
6. Can be used alongside its sister volume, The Digital Phoenix as the basis for a course.


Table of Contents (Índice):

1. Minds and Computers: Synthetic Neuroethology: Pete Mandik. Computer Modeling and the Fate of Folk Psychology: John Barker. Philosophy of Mind, Cognitive Science, and Pedagogical Technique: Marvin Croy. Phenomenology and Artificial Intelligence: Anthony F. Beavers.
2. Agency and Computers: Adaptable Robots: Gene Korienek and William Uzgalis. A Radical Notion of Embeddedness: A Logically Necessary Precondition for Agency and Self-Awareness: Susan Stuart. Building Simple Mechanical Minds: Using LEGO© Robots for Research and Teaching in Philosophy: John P. Sullins.
3. Reality and Computers: What Is the Philosophy of Information?: Luciano Floridi. The Substantive Impact of Computers on Philosophy: Prolegomena Computational and Information-Theoretic Metaphysics: Randall R. Dipert. Computation and Causation: Richard Scheines.
4. Communication and Computers: Philosophy for Computers: Some Explorations in Philosophical Modeling: Patrick Grim. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: A Developed Dynamic Reference Work: Colin Allen, Uri Nodelman, and Edward N. Zalta. Cultures in Collision: Philosophical Lessons from Computer-Mediated Communication: Charles Ess.
5. Ethics and Computers: Heuristic Methods for Computer Ethics: Walter Maner. Lilliputian Computer Ethics: John Weckert. Deontic Logic and Computer-Supported Computer Ethics: Jeroen van den Hoven and Gert-Jan Lokhorst.


About the Author (Sobre os autores):

James H. Moor is Professor of Philosophy at Dartmouth College. He developed early computer programs to teach symbolic logic and is the co-author of 'The Logic Book' (1998). He has been Chair of the American Philosophical Association Committee on Philosophy and Computing and a Fellow at the Harvard Information Infrastructure Project. He is co-editor of the journal Minds and Machines and a member of the editorial board for the journal Ethics and Information Technology. He is currently President of the Society for Machines and Mentality.

Terrell Ward Bynum is Director of the Research Center on Computing and Society at Southern Connecticut State University. He has been Chair of the Committee on Professional Ethics of the Association for Computing Machinery and Chair of the Committee on Philosophy and Computing of the American Philosophical Association. For 25 years, he was Editor-in-Chief of the journal, Metaphilosophy. His previous publications include books, articles, video programs and CD-ROMs in applied philosophy, philosophical psychology, artificial intelligence, philosophy of mathematics, metaphilosophy and the teaching of philosophy.
Vale a pena ler o livro e aconselha-se a sua tradução para língua portuguesa. Em vez de ter publicado a porcaria do livro de Carolina Salgado, a Dom Quixote podia ter gasto o seu dinheiro na publicação deste livro revolucionário, sem sujar as mãos com os que não sabem perder com educação.
Apesar de ser um bom livro de iniciação, não aborda assuntos fundamentais para a elaboração da cyberfilosofia, tal como a concebo, talvez porque os organizadores sejam alheios à tradição continental da Filosofia. O artigo "Culturas em colisão" é muito bom e abre a via a novas pesquisas filosóficas.
Com excepção deste meu blog e dalguns trabalhos meus resultantes da pesquisa interactiva que levo a cabo desde 2000, não conheço mais ninguém desta área, talvez porque os professores, ou melhor, as professoras de filosofia serem predominantemente mulheres, velhas e incapazes de se interessar pelos computadores, preferindo garantir o seu posto e sobretudo a remuneração, para financiar a sua vida metabolicamente reduzida. Estas palavras são duras mas verdadeiras e sem verdade não há mudança qualitativa. As Faculdades de Letras ou de Ciências Sociais afundam-se cada vez mais na merda que produzem. Elas aguardam passivamente os ataques terroristas.
J Francisco Saraiva de Sousa

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