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SCHIȚĂ PENTRU O POSIBILĂ FILOSOFIE A DIGITALULUI
Outlines of a Possible Philosophy of the Digital

Author(s): Lavinia Marin
Subject(s): Social Philosophy
Published by: Editura Academiei Române
Keywords: philosophy of the digital; digitalisation; digital thinking; automatism; Vilem Flusser; post-history; linear thinking;

Summary/Abstract: This article aims to develop the outline of a possible philosophy of the digital, as a proper philosophy with its own domain, questions, methods and theories. The article starts by describing the crisis of linear thinking understood, following Vilém Flusser, as a crisis of historical-causal thinking. Then the digital thinking is described as a new way of thinking which aims to become the dominant way of scientific explanation of our times, by replacing historical-causal explanations with numerical models. The proper domain of a philosophy of the digital is then defined as the digital life-form. The article ends by showing an example of a specific problem for the philosophy of the digital, namely the automatisation of human life.

  • Issue Year: LXIII/2016
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 571-582
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Romanian, Moldavian