- From: <alexandre.monnin@web-and-philosophy.org>
- Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2013 10:08:45 +0100
- To: public-philoweb@w3.org
Dear All, For those who might be interested, my thesis is now available online through open access (it's still in French though!): http://www.theses.fr/2013PA010592 All the best, Alexandre Monnin Le Wed, 27 Mar 2013 20:22:32 +0100, alexandre.monnin@web-and-philosophy.org <alexandre.monnin@web-and-philosophy.org> a écrit: > Dear all, > > I'm happy to announce that I will be defending my PhD thesis on the > philosophy of the Web in Sorbonne on April 8 : > > > Towards a Philosophy of the Web. The Web as Philosophy becoming artefact > (between URIs, tags, ontologies and resources). > > For those in Paris, that will take place salle Louis Liard : > > > > > Here's the summary : > : > > > The aim of this thesis is to account for the importance of the Web from a > philosophical point of view. In a twofold fashion: as an object for > research that, in the wake of the Semantic Web and Webarch, in different > ways, is obviously consonant with many classical issues in metaphysics > and > the philosophy of language. From this perspective, we study some of its > main building blocks (URI, resources, tags, etc.). Along with this > aspect, > we underline its importance as regards what’s becoming of philosophy > itself. This is all the more important since the task at hand demanded > that we did not project philosophical categories a priori and lend > ourselves to commit the “inscription error” acutely described by Brian > Cantwell Smith, by resorting to a form of philosophia perennis. > Conversely, we tried to focus our attention on Web architects themselves > in order to bring their empirical metaphysics to the forefront, observing > the controversies to which it lent itself. By acknowledging the « > ontogonic » scope of such a practice as « philosophical engineering », an > expression coined by no other than Tim Berners-Lee himself, understood as > the production of new distinctions and entities like resources in a world > that unfolds, we were made to ponder broader topics like the nature of > objectivation. In the end, this gave rise to political concerns in line > with the establishment of a shared world, in which the Web is heavily > involved. > > > > And the jury : > > M. Bruno Bachimont (Directeur à la Recherche, UTC, rapporteur) > M. Brian Cantwell Smith (Professeur, Université de Toronto, examinateur) > Mme Christiane Chauviré (Professeure Emérite, Paris 1, directrice) > M. Fabien Gandon (Chargé de Recherche, Inria Sophia Antipolis, > examinateur) > M. Antoine Hennion (Directeur de Recherche, Mines ParisTech, rapporteur) > Mme Sandra Laugier (Professeure, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, > examinatrice) > M. Richard Rogers (Professeur, Université d’Amsterdam, examinateur) > > All the best, > Alexandre Monnin. > -- Membre du collège d'experts Open Data de la mission Etalab du Premier Ministre Chercheur associé chez Inria (EPI Wimmics, Sophia Antipolis) - Co-initiateur du projet DBpedia Francophone et SemanticPedia Docteur en philosophie à Paris 1 Panthéon -Sorbonne (PHICO, EXeCO) - Thèse sur la philosophie du Web Co-chair du Community Group "Philosophy of the Web" au W3C Organisateur des "Rencontres du Web de données" Twitter : @aamonnz & @PhiloWeb, PhiloWeb, http://web-and-philosophy.org/, PhiloWeb on Dailymotion, PhiloWeb discussion list @INRIA
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