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(2014) Rivista di estetica 57.
La création d'un nouvel espace social
Internet et la documentalité / Internet comme documentalité
Isabelle Pariente-Butterlin
pp. 87-99
The opposition between “in real life” an “in virtual life” is often used of, in order to distinguish between two parts of the world. We are supposed to live a virtual life on the Internet, behind the lightened screen of our computer, while we are supposed to live a real life in the real world. I claim that the Internet is not a virtual world, and that it is a part of the actual world for there are causal links between the Internet and the so-called real world. According to David Lewis, worlds that are causally linked to each other cannot be different worlds. The only way to conceive of the Internet as a part of the actual world is to adopt Maurizio Ferraris’ hypothesis about documentality because, under such a hypothesis, what one writes has a causal power.
Publication details
DOI: 10.4000/estetica.698
Full citation:
Pariente-Butterlin, I. (2014). La création d'un nouvel espace social: Internet et la documentalité / Internet comme documentalité. Rivista di estetica 57, pp. 87-99.
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