think of several ways for applying computational methods towards philosophical matters: Conceptual experiments in silico: As an innovative extension of an ancient tradition of thought experiment, a trend has begun in philosophy to apply computational modeling schemes to questions in logic, epistemology, philosophy of science, philosophy of biology, philosophy of mind, and so on. Pancomputationalism: On this view, computational and informational concepts are considered to be so powerful that given the right level of abstraction, anything in the world could be modeled and represented as a computational system, and any process could be simulated computationally. Then, however, pancomputationalists have the hard task of providing credible answers to the following two questions: how can one avoid blurring all differences among systems? what would it mean for the system under investigation not to be an informational system (or a computational system, if computation is the same as information processing)? Information and society Numerous philosophers and other thinkers have carried out philosophical studies of the social and cultural aspects of electronically mediated information. Albert Borgmann, Holding onto Reality: The Nature of Information at the Turn of the Millennium (Chicago University Press, 1999) Mark Poster, The Mode of Information (Chicago Press, 1990) Luciano Floridi, "The Informational Nature of Reality", Fourth International European Conference on Computing and Philosophy 2006 (Dragvoll Campus, NTNU Norwegian University for Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway, 22–24 June 2006). See also Artificial philosophy Barwise prize Complex system Digital divide Digital philosophy Digital physics Game theory Freedom of information Informatics Information Information art Information ethics Information theory International Association for Computing and Philosophy Logic of information Philosophy of artificial intelligence Philosophy of computer science Philosophy of technology Philosophy of thermal and statistical physics Relational quantum mechanics Social informatics Statistical mechanics Notes Further reading Luciano Floridi, "What is the Philosophy of Information?" Metaphilosophy, 33.1/2: 123-145. Reprinted in T.W. Bynum and J.H. Moor (eds.), 2003. CyberPhilosophy: The Intersection of Philosophy and Computing. Oxford – New York: Blackwell. -------- (ed.), 2004. The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Computing and Information. Oxford - New York: Blackwell. Greco, G.M., Paronitti G., Turilli M., and Floridi L., 2005. How to Do Philosophy Informationally. Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence 3782, pp. 623–634. External links IEG site, the Oxford University research group on the philosophy of information. It from bit and fit from bit. On the origin and impact of information in the average evolution - from bit to