Uma reflexão filosófica sobre o conceito de informação ecológica
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2012-03-12
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Moroni , Juliana [UNESP]
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Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
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Investigações sobre o conceito de informação, de natureza ontológica e epistemológica, têm revelado um campo fértil para o estudo filosófico do processo de aquisição do conhecimento. Tal estudo se desenvolve através de perspectivas que abrangem desde concepções estritamente formais até aquelas que entendem a informação como fator emergente da relação entre organismos e ambiente. Nesse sentido, a presente dissertação tem como objetivo realizar um estudo epistemológico da relação entre informação e percepção-ação. Para isso, focalizamos as características centrais da relação agente-ambiente no plano da ação significativa. Tais características também são investigadas através de questões éticas que envolvem o uso da informação em aparatos tecnológicos espalhados no ambiente. Nesse contexto, apresentamos inicialmente um breve relato histórico-filosófico da “virada informacional na Filosofia”, para, posteriormente, centralizar nosso estudo na abordagem externalista da percepção-ação e sua relação com a informação ecológica. Argumentamos em defesa da hipótese de que a Filosofia Ecológica oferece subsídios teóricos inovadores para a análise da relação informacional que se estabelece entre agente e ambiente no plano da ação significativa. Finalmente, discutimos implicações éticas da “virada informacional” na Filosofia a partir da concepção ecológica de informação. Argumentamos que as tecnologias que emergem da “virada informacional” propiciaram o surgimento de uma Ética voltada ao estudo das consequências do seu uso na vida cotidiana dos indivíduos. Questionamos até que ponto as tecnologias informacionais possibilitam o surgimento de affordances tecnológicas que podem influenciar a percepção-ação de organismos situados em nichos que as incluem
Investigation of the ontological and epistemological nature of information has revealed a fertile area for philosophical study of the process of knowledge acquisition. Such studies have used perspectives ranging from strictly formal conceptions of information to those that understand information to be a factor that emerges from the relationship between organisms and their environment. The present dissertation concerns an epistemological study of the relationship between information and perception-action, focusing on the main characteristics of the relationship established between organisms and their environments in terms of meaningful action. Such characteristics are also investigated from an ethical perspective that encompasses the use of information derived from technological devices dispersed in the environment. In this context, a brief historical account of the informational turn in philosophy is first presented. The work then focuses on the externalist approach to the relationship between perception-action and ecological information. An argument is provided in defense of the hypothesis that Ecological Philosophy offers innovative theoretical support for analysis of the informational relationship established between organism and environment in terms of meaningful action. Finally, an evaluation is made of the ethical implications of the informational turn in Philosophy”, from the standpoint of the ecological conception of information. It is argued that the technologies emergent from the informational turn have allowed the creation of an Ethics focused on the study of the consequences of the use of technology in agents' everyday life. We question to what extent such technologies enable the emergence of technological affordances that can influence perception-action
Investigation of the ontological and epistemological nature of information has revealed a fertile area for philosophical study of the process of knowledge acquisition. Such studies have used perspectives ranging from strictly formal conceptions of information to those that understand information to be a factor that emerges from the relationship between organisms and their environment. The present dissertation concerns an epistemological study of the relationship between information and perception-action, focusing on the main characteristics of the relationship established between organisms and their environments in terms of meaningful action. Such characteristics are also investigated from an ethical perspective that encompasses the use of information derived from technological devices dispersed in the environment. In this context, a brief historical account of the informational turn in philosophy is first presented. The work then focuses on the externalist approach to the relationship between perception-action and ecological information. An argument is provided in defense of the hypothesis that Ecological Philosophy offers innovative theoretical support for analysis of the informational relationship established between organism and environment in terms of meaningful action. Finally, an evaluation is made of the ethical implications of the informational turn in Philosophy”, from the standpoint of the ecological conception of information. It is argued that the technologies emergent from the informational turn have allowed the creation of an Ethics focused on the study of the consequences of the use of technology in agents' everyday life. We question to what extent such technologies enable the emergence of technological affordances that can influence perception-action
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Epistemologia, Teoria da informação, Ética, Relação (Filosofia), Epistemology, Relation (Philosophy)
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MORONI , Juliana. Uma reflexão filosófica sobre o conceito de informação ecológica. 2012. 105 f. Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual Paulista, Faculdade de Filosofia e Ciências de Marília, 2012.