Preface -- Chapter 1. Philosophy of technology: what and why? -- Chapter 2. Technological artifacts -- Chapter 3. Technological knowledge -- Chapter 4. Technological processes -- Chapter 5. Technology and the nature of humans -- Chapter 6. Ethics and aesthetics of technology -- Chapter 7. Learners’ philosophies of technology -- Chapter 8. Reconceptualizing technology through education -- Chap…
Part 1: Fundamental and legal questions. 1. Legal fundamentalism: is data protection really a fundamental right? Bart Van der Sloot -- 2. Is there a Right to Offline Alternatives in a Digital World? Murat Karaboga, Tobias Matzner, Hannah Obersteller and Carsten Ochs -- 3. What is New with the Internet of Things in Privacy and Data Protection? Four Legal Challenges. Ugo Pagallo, Massimo Durante …
Chapter1. Introduction New Civic Responsibilities for Online Service Providers (Mariarosaria Taddeo & Luciano Floridi) -- Part I: Responsibilities and liabilities -- Chapter2. The Debate on the Moral Responsibilities of Online Service Providers (Mariarosaria Taddeo & Luciano Floridi) -- Chapter 3. The Immunity of Internet Intermediaries reconsidered? (Gerogios N. Yannopoulos) -- Chapter 4. Is G…
I. Introduction; A Comparative Overview of the Secondary Liability of Internet Service Providers; Graeme B. Dinwoodie -- II. Sources and Concepts -- The Different bases for Secondary Liability of Service Providers in Poland; Xawery Konarski and Tomasz Targosz -- Secondary Liability of Internet Service Providers in The United States: General Principles and Fragmentation; Salil K. Mehra and Marke…
Introduction: Beyond Disunity and Historicism -- “In Order That We Should Not Ourselves Appear to Be Adjusting Our Estimates … to Make Them Fit Some Predetermined Amount” -- Ptolemy’s Theories of the Latitude of the Planets in the Almagest, Handy Tables, and Planetary Hypotheses -- Alchemy and the Changing Significance of Analysis -- Descartes and the Heart Beat: A Conservative Innovati…
Scientific Cognition in a Sociocultural Context -- Structure of Theoretical Knowledge -- The Foundations of Science -- Genesis of Theoretical Knowledge in Classical Science -- Formation and Development of Theory in Non-Classical Science -- Scientific Revolutions -- Strategies of Theoretical Investigation in the Epoch of Post-Non-Classical Science -- Strategies of Theoretical Investigation in th…
Special Fluent Calculus -- Special FLUX -- General Fluent Calculus -- General FLUX -- Knowledge Programming -- Planning -- Nondeterminism -- Imprecision* -- Indirect Effects: Ramification Problem* -- Troubleshooting: Qualification Problem -- Robotics.The book provides an in-depth and uniform treatment of a mathematical model for reasoning robotic agents. The book also contains an introduction t…
This book examines sonic signals as something both heard internally and externally, through imagination, memory and direct response. In doing so it explores how the mind 'makes' sound through experience, as it interprets codes on the written page, and creates an internal leitmotif that then interacts with new sounds made through an aural partnership with the external world, chosen and involunta…