Presented at Thought Experiments Rethought Congress (Ghent, Belgium)

Abstract. In this paper I try to give an alternative account of what (Floridi, 2003) describes as the two approaches to the Philosophy of Information (henceforth PI), and more precisely as the move from an analytical to a constructionist approach within PI. Whereas he tackles the problem from the standpoint of the historical evolution of PI (see: Floridi, 2002) - more generally relying on the notion of a pragmatic turn within contemporary analytical philosophy - I present a rather different approach, which is based on an interpretation of science fiction as a thought experiment.