Harry Halpin & Alexandre Monnin 
Philosophical Engineering [PDF ebook] 
Toward a Philosophy of the Web

This is the first interdisciplinary exploration of the
philosophical foundations of the Web, a new area of inquiry that
has important implications across a range of domains.

* Contains twelve essays that bridge the fields of philosophy,
cognitive science, and phenomenology

* Tackles questions such as the impact of Google on intelligence
and epistemology, the philosophical status of digital objects,
ethics on the Web, semantic and ontological changes caused by the
Web, and the potential of the Web to serve as a genuine cognitive
extension

* Brings together insightful new scholarship from well-known
analytic and continental philosophers, such as Andy Clark and
Bernard Stiegler, as well as rising scholars in ‘digital
native’ philosophy and engineering

* Includes an interview with Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the
Web

Tabella dei contenuti

Notes on Contributors

Introductory Note

DUNCAN PRITCHARD AND LEE JOHN WHITTINGTON

1 Luck as Risk and the Lack of Control Account of
Luck

FERNANDO BRONCANO-BERROCAL

2 Strokes of Luck

E. J. COFFMAN

3 Luck Attributions and Cognitive Bias

STEVEN D. HALES AND JENNIFER ADRIENNE JOHNSON

4 Frankfurt in Fake Barn Country

NEIL LEVY

5 Luck and Free Will

ALFRED R. MELE

6 You Make Your Own Luck

RACHEL MCKINNON

7 Subject-Involving Luck

JOE MILBURN

8 The Modal Account of Luck

DUNCAN PRITCHARD

9 The Machinations of Luck

NICHOLAS RESCHER

10 Luck, Knowledge, and ‘Mere’ Coincidence

WAYNE D. RIGGS

11 The Unbearable Uncertainty Paradox

SABINE ROESER

12 Getting Moral Luck Right

LEE JOHN WHITTINGTON

Index

Circa l’autore

Harry Halpin is Postdoctoral Associate with the World
Wide Web Consortium at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
and a Visiting Researcher at the Institut de Recherche et
d’Innovation du Centre Pompidou, France, as part of a
European Commission-funded Marie Curie PHILOWEB project. His
research interests range from the complex dynamics of tagging to
the philosophical foundations of Anonymous. He is the author of
Social Semantics: The Search for Meaning on the Web (2012),
which analyzes the impact of the Web on theories of semantics.

Alexandre Monnin is Head of Web and Metadata Research at
the Institut de Recherche et d’Innovation du Centre Pompidou,
France, and Associate Researcher at INRIA and CNAM. He has
published research on tagging, the architecture of the Web, and its
importance for ontology. In 2010, he organized the first
interdisciplinary Philo Web conference and in 2012 he held the first
international seminar on the topic, both at the Sorbonne. He
co-initiated Semantic Pedia, the semantic platform for Wikimedia
projects in French.