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Toward a Philosophy of The W eb
Author(s) -
Monnin Alexandre,
Halpin Harry
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
metaphilosophy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.475
H-Index - 35
eISSN - 1467-9973
pISSN - 0026-1068
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9973.2012.01764.x
Subject(s) - warrant , foundation (evidence) , epistemology , hypertext , the internet , space (punctuation) , philosophy , world wide web , computer science , sociology , law , political science , business , linguistics , finance
The advent of the W eb is one of the defining technological events of the twentieth century, yet its impact on the fundamental questions of philosophy has not yet been explored, much less systematized. The W eb, as today implemented on the foundations of the Internet, is broadly construed as the space of all items of interest identified by URI s. Originally a space of linked hypertext documents, today the W eb is rapidly evolving as a universal platform for data and computation. Even swifter is the W eb‐driven transformation of many previously unquestioned philosophical concepts of privacy, belief, intelligence, cognition, and even embodiment in surprising ways. The ensuing essays in this collection hope to explore the philosophical foundation of the W orld W ide W eb and open the debate on whether or not the changes caused by the Web to technology and society warrant the creation of a philosophy of the W eb.