The Information Society and Its Philosophy: Introduction to the Special Issue on "The Philosophy of Information, its Nature and Future Developments"

The article introduces the special issue dedicated to “The Phi-losophy of Information, Its Nature, and Future Developments.”It outlines the origins of the information society and then brieflydiscusses the definition of the philosophy of information, the possi-bility of reconciling nature and technology, the informational turnas a fourth revolution (after Copernicus, Darwin, and Freud), andthe metaphysics of the infosphere.