ABSTRACT
Precisely in a probabilistic way Claude Shannon defined information in the twentieth century. Of the old meaning of information, in which it is, first of all, a matter of giving or transmitting the form to things, something survives in Gilbert Simondon, who, among other things, was one of the organizers of the sixth symposium at Royaumont in 1962 to which Norbert Wiener and Benoit Mandelbrot participated. Luciano Floridi is drastic, but he is for sure not wrong, arguing that Shannon’s theory is not even an information theory, but just a “mathematical theory of data communication.” Floridi also presents what he calls Genetic Neutrality, according to which information can have a semantics independently of any informee. P. Brey rightly observes that Information Ethics is committed to an untenable egalitarianism in the valuation of information objects. Floridi’s idea on the digital are in continuity with his ethical-ontological perspectives. In conclusion, the hermeneutics of information is a material hermeneutics for some reasons.
