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Floridi's Philosophy of Information and Posthumanism

  • 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities
  • 2023, 16(1), pp.143-179
  • DOI : 10.22901/trans.2023.16.1.143
  • Publisher : Ewha Institute for the Humanities: EIH
  • Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities
  • Received : April 2, 2023
  • Accepted : April 23, 2023
  • Published : April 30, 2023

Sangkyu Shin 1

1이화여자대학교

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ABSTRACT

This paper seeks to identify and elucidate useful conceptual tools in Floridi's philosophy of information for the development of a posthumanist discourse, especially in information ethics. Floridi is not a philosopher who claims to be posthumanist himself. Nevertheless, there are many discussions in his philosophy of information that provide important insights into posthumanist discourse. Posthumanism promotes a post-anthropocentric understanding of humans and the world by dissolving the boundaries of traditional binary divisions such as mind/body, life/machine, human/non-human, and artificial/natural. This paper argues that his information ethics is posthumanist in its elucidation of key concepts such as infosphere and inforg, its ontocentric and patient-oriented approache to ethics, and its postanthropocentric analysis of the concept of the agent.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.