In this paper we introduce three methods to approach philosophical problems informationally: Minimalism, the Method of Abstraction and Constructionism. Minimalism considers the specifications of the starting problems and systems that are tractable for a philosophical analysis. The Method of Abstraction describes the process of making explicit the level of abstraction at which a system is observed and investigated. Constructionism provides a series of principles that the investigation of the problem must fulfil once it has been fully characterised by the previous two methods. For each method, we also provide an application: the problem of visual perception, functionalism, and the Turing Test, respectively. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2005.
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Greco, G. M., Paronitti, G., Turilli, M., & Floridi, L. (2005). How to do philosophy informationally. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 3782 LNAI, pp. 623–634). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/11590019_70
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