Toward a Phenomenology of Information: Philosophical Engagements with Information Technology in the Information Age
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This article intends to review some strains of modern philosophy which more directly address the acceleration and proliferation of technology and communications in recent times. The author presents contemporary western philosophical approaches, broadly, as fundamentally Analytic or Continental. The author then explores certain developments relating to information technologywithin the two, including the Philosophy of Infor- mation, and, in greater depth, various theories rooted in the Continental tradition.
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