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&#160;DescriptionThis is the first interdisciplinary exploration of the philosophical foundations of the Web, a new area of inquiry that has important implications across a range of domains.Contains twelve essays that bridge the fields of philosophy, cognitive science, and phenomenologyTackles questions such as the impact of Google on intelligence and epistemology, the philosophical status of digital objects, ethics on the Web, semantic and ontological changes caused by the Web, and the potential of the Web to serve as a genuine cognitive extensionBrings together insightful new scholarship from well-known analytic and continental philosophers, such as Andy Clark and Bernard Stiegler, as well as rising scholars in “digital native” philosophy and engineeringIncludes an interview with Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the Web&#160;Author InformationHarry Halpin is Postdoctoral Associate with the World Wide Web Consortium at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a Visiting Researcher at the Institut de Recherche et d’Innovation du Centre Pompidou, France, as part of a European Commission–funded Marie Curie PHILOWEB project. His research interests range from the complex dynamics of tagging to the philosophical foundations of Anonymous. He is the author of Social Semantics: The Search for Meaning on the Web (2012), which analyzes the impact of the Web on theories of semantics.Alexandre Monnin holds a Ph.D. on the Philosophy of the Web from Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (“Towards a Philosophy of the Web”), is an associate researcher at Inria, and was named Open Data senior adviser for Etalab, the mission in charge of Open Data in France under the responsibility of the prime minister, in 2013. He has published research on tagging, the architecture of the Web, and its importance for ontology. In 2010, he organized the first interdisciplinary PhiloWeb symposium, which became an annual conference, and in 2012 he held the first international seminar on the topic—both at the Sorbonne. He is also the initiator of SemanticPedia, a platform that develops and hosts semantic versionsof Wikimedia projects in French, including DBpedia. He previously worked as head of Web Research at Institut de Recherche et d'Innovation du Centre Pompidou, and research fellow at Internationales Kolleg für Kulturtechnikforschung und Medienphilosophie (Bauhaus University, Weimar).&#160;Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors vii1 Toward a Philosophy of the Web: Foundations and Open ProblemsALEXANDRE MONNIN AND HARRY HALPIN 12 Philosophy of the Web: Representation, Enaction, Collective IntelligenceHARRY HALPIN, ANDY CLARK, AND MICHAEL WHEELER 213 The Web as Ontology: Web Architecture Between REST, Resources, and RulesALEXANDRE MONNIN 314 What Is a Digital Object?YUK HUI 525 Web Ontologies as Renewal of Classical Philosophical OntologyPIERRE LIVET 686 Being, Space, and Time on the WebMICHALIS VAFOPOULOS 777 Evaluating Google as an Epistemic ToolTHOMAS W. SIMPSON 978 The Web-Extended MindPAUL R. SMART 1169 Given the Web, What Is Intelligence, Really?SELMER BRINGSJORD AND NAVEEN SUNDAR GOVINDARAJULU 13410 The Web as a Tool for ProvingPETROS STEFANEAS AND IOANNIS M. VANDOULAKIS 14911 Virtual Worlds and Their Challenge to Philosophy: Understanding the “Intravirtual” and the “Extravirtual”JOHNNY HARTZ SØRAKER 16812 Interview with Tim Berners-LeeHARRY HALPIN AND ALEXANDRE MONNIN 18113 Afterword: Web PhilosophyBERNARD STIEGLER 187Index 199