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Digital Knowledge: A Philosophical Investigation is the first book to fully explain and examine digital knowledge: what it is, how it compares to received theories of knowledge and where it is going.
List of contents
Preface 1. Digital Epistemology: A Research Programme Motivated 2. From Digital Information to Digital Knowledge 3. The Nature of Digital Knowledge: A Bi-Level Account 4. The Dark Side of Digital Knowledge: Scepticism and Defeat 5. A Digital Epistemology of Machine Learning 6. A Digital Epistemology of Big Data. Bibliography Index
About the author
J. Adam Carter is Reader in Philosophy at the University of Glasgow, UK, where he is the deputy director the COGITO Epistemology Research Centre. His books The Philosophy of Group Polarization and The Epistemology of Group Disagreement (both with Fernando Broncano-Berrocal), and Well-Founded Belief: New Essays on the Epistemic Basing Relation (with Patrick Bondy), are also available from Routledge. He is also the author of Autonomous Knowledge (2022) and PI on an AHRC funded project on digital epistemology (2022–2025).
Summary
Digital Knowledge: A Philosophical Investigation is the first book to fully explain and examine digital knowledge: what it is, how it compares to received theories of knowledge and where it is going.
