A Metaphysics of Creation for the Information Age: A Dialogue with Duns Scotus
By (Author) Liran Shia Gordon
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
23rd May 2022
United States
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
110
Hardback
210
Width 161mm, Height 227mm, Spine 23mm
503g
The metaphysical and theological writings of John Duns Scotus (1265/6-1308)one of the most intriguing, albeit if now nigh-forgotten philosophers of the late Middle Ageswere seminal in the emergence of modernity. A Metaphysics of Creation for the Information Age: A Dialogue with Duns Scotus uses the prism of the concept of Creation as the leitmotif to assemble and interpret Scotuss system of thought in a unified manner. In doing so, Liran Shia Gordon reframes Scotuss metaphysics such that it confronts the challenges posed by information technology and its impact on our lives, thought, and actions. Surprisingly, although there has been great interest in the emergence and dissemination of information technology through the popular media, there has not yet been a genuine and vigorous philosophical consideration of the multiple ways information technology alters the basic categories by which we perceive and understand reality.
Liran Shia Gordon is an independent scholar.