Putting Information First focuses on Luciano Floridi’s contributions to the philosophy of information. Respected scholars stimulate the debate on the most distinctive and controversial views he defended, and present the philosophy of information as a specific way of doing philosophy.

• Contains eight essays by leading scholars, a reply by Luciano Floridi, and an epilogue by Terrell W. Bynum
• Explains the importance of philosophy of information as a specific way of doing philosophy
• Focuses directly on the work of Luciano Floridi in the area of philosophy of information, but also connects to contemporary concerns in philosophy more generally
• Illustrates several debates that arise from core themes in the philosophy of information

Content:
Chapter 1 Putting Information First: Luciano Floridi and the Philosophy of Information (pages 1–8): Patrick Allo
Chapter 2 The Value of knowledge and the Pursuit of Survival (pages 9–32): Sherrilyn Roush
Chapter 3 Knowledge Transmissibility and Pluralistic Ignorance: A First Stab (pages 33–44): Vincent F. Hendricks
Chapter 4 Meeting Floridi's Challenge to Artificial Intelligence from the Knowledge?Game Test for Self?Consciousness (pages 45–65): Selmer Bringsjord
Chapter 5 Information without Truth (pages 66–83): Andrea Scarantino and Gualtiero Piccinini
Chapter 6 Information and knowledge a la Floridi (pages 84–96): Fred Adams
Chapter 7 Abstraction, Law, and Freedom in Computer Science (pages 97–115): Timothy Colburn and Gary Shute
Chapter 8 Structuralism and Information (pages 116–130): Otavio Bueno
Chapter 9 Why Information Ethics must begin with Virtue Ethics (pages 131–152): Richard Volkman
Chapter 10 The Philosophy of Information: Ten Years Later (pages 153–170): Luciano Floridi
Chapter 11 Philosophy in the Information Age (pages 171–193): Terrell Ward Bynum