The Internet and Philosophy of Science (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Gonzalez, Wenceslao J

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book analyzes the Internet conceived in a broad sense. It includes three layers that require philosophical attention: (1) the technological infrastructure, (2) the Web, and (3) cloud computing, along with apps and mobile Internet.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000626667
• Artikelnr.: 66009085

Autorenporträt

Wenceslao J. Gonzalez is Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science (University of A Coruña). He is a Full Member of the Académie International de Philosophie des Sciences/International Academy for Philosophy of Sciences. He was a Team Leader of the European Science Foundation program entitled 'The Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective' (2008-2013). He has been Visiting Fellow at the Center for Philosophy of Science (University of Pittsburgh) and a visiting researcher at the London School of Economics. Gonzalez has been a member of the National Committee for Evaluation of the Scientific Activity (CNEAI) of Spain. He is the director of the Center for Research in Philosophy of Science and Technology (CIFCYT) at the University of A Coruña, where he organizes an annual conference on Contemporary Philosophy and Methodology of Science. His publications include monographs such as Philosophico-Methodological Analysis of Prediction and its Role in Economics (2015) and the edition of 44 volumes on philosophy of science and technology, such as New Approaches to Scientific Realism (2020). He is the author of numerous papers on the Internet from a philosophical perspective, such as 'The Internet at the Service of Society: Business Ethics, Rationality, and Responsibility' (2020).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Creativity in the Internet as a Complex Setting: Interaction between
Scientific Creativity, Technological Innovation and Social
Innovation, Wenceslao J. Gonzalez
Part I Configuration of the Internet and Its Future
2. The Internet as a Complex System Articulated in Layers: Present
Status and Possible Future, Wenceslao J. Gonzalez
3. The Future of the Web, James Hendler
Part II Structural and Dynamic Complexity in the Design of the
Internet
4. Designing an Internet of Machines and Humans for the Future, Yan Luo
5. Strategies for managing Dynamic Complexity in Building the Internet,
Ole Henseth
Part III Internal and External Contributions of the Internet
6. Data Observatories: Decentralised Data and Interdisciplinary
Research, Thanassis Tiropanis
7. Digitization, Internet and the Economics of Creative Industries,
Ruth Towse
8. Digital Surplus: Labour in the Information Age, Enrique Alonso
Part IV The Internet and the Sciences
9. Biology and the Internet: Fake news and Covid-19, Wenceslao J.
Gonzalez
10. The Novelty of Communicative Design on the Internet: Analysis of the
Snapchat case from the Sciences of the Artificial, Maria Jose Arrojo