Philosophical conceptions of information

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5363 LNCS, Issue , 2009, Pages 13-53

  Floridi, Luciano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 67650326850     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-00659-3_2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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