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The term 'information' has become ubiquitous. In fact the notion of information is arguably amongst the most important of our `Information Age'. But just what exactly is information? This is a question without a straightforward response, particularly as information is a polysemantic concept, applied to a range of phenomena across a range of disciplines. Some of the most common formulation developed in the 20th century include: Fisher information, Shannon information, Kolmogorov complexity, quantum information, information as a state of an agent, and semantic information. Some notions of information are associated with central concerns of philosophy and have been used in various ways. Dealings with information from within philosophy include work on conceptions and analyses of information, the application of information to philosophical topics such as epistemology and logic and information ethics. Further to this, conceptions of information within other disciplines such as biology and physics can be and have been of interest within philosophy. Two conceptions of information of particular interest to philosophers are semantic information and environmental information, which can be seen as roughly correlating to the Gricean notions of non-natural and natural meaning respectively. |
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- The concept of information for functions.Yair Lapin - manuscriptdetails
- God: Shifting Arguments and the Single Theory of Everything.Joey Lawsin - manuscriptdetails
- A Semantic Information Formula Compatible with Shannon and Popper's Theories.Chenguang Lu - manuscriptdetails
- Information and meaning in life, humans and robots (FIS 2005).Christophe Menant - manuscriptdetails
- Introduction to a Systemic Theory of Meaning (Jan 2010 update).Christophe Menant - manuscriptdetails
- Meaning generation for animals, humans and artificial agents. An evolutionary perspective on the philosophy of information. (IS4SI 2017).Christophe Menant - manuscriptdetails
- Cognition as management of meaningful information. Proposal for an evolutionary approach (IACAP Aarhus July 2011).Christophe Menant - manuscriptdetails
- What is information after all? How the founder of modern dialectical logic could help the founder of cybernetics answer this question.Eugene Perevalov - manuscriptdetails
- Information, Meaning and Physics: The Intellectual Transformation of the English School of Information Theory during 1946-1956.Javier Anta - forthcoming - Science in Context:1-17.details
- Reasoning about Information Assurance Policy with Uncertainty using the Semantic Web.Stephen F. Bush - forthcoming - Annual Symposium on Information Assurance:1--7.details
- Conceptualizing Self-Documentation.Tim Gorichanaz - forthcoming - Online Information Review 43.details
- Philosophy's Relevance in Information Science.Ruth Hagengruber (ed.) - forthcomingdetails
- Who's Going to Mine the Information Klondike.R. Heibel - forthcoming - Colloquy.details
- Autognorics Approach to the Problem of Defining Life and Artificial Intelligence.Joey Lawsin - forthcomingdetails
- Correspondence Theory of Semantic Information.Marcin Miłkowski - forthcoming - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science.details
- Communities that behave as Information systems.Eliseo Luis Vilalta-Perdomo & Rebecca Herron - forthcoming - Journal of Research Practice.details
- Data Quality in Geographic Information, chapter Some Algebraic and Logical Foundations for Spatial Imprecision.Michael F. Worboys - forthcoming - Hermes.details
- MASS SURVEILLANCE, BEHAVIOURAL CONTROL, AND PSYCHOLOGICAL COERCION THE MORAL ETHICAL RISKS IN COMMERCIAL DEVICES.Yang Immanuel Pachankis - 2022 - In David C. Wyld & Dhinaharan Nagamalai (eds.), Computer Science and Information Technology. Chennai, India: pp. 151-168.details
- Some Concepts of Space, Time, and Lengths in Simplified Chinese*: An Analytical Linguistics Approach.Yang Immanuel Pachankis - 2022 - International Journal of Innovative Science and Research Technology 7 (6):550-562.details
- Multi-Channel Mathematics.Ilexa Yardley - 2022 - Https://Medium.Com/the-Circular-Theory.details
- The Singularity.Ilexa Yardley - 2022 - Intelligent Design Center.details
- Make Information in Science Meaningful Again.Javier Anta - 2021 - Logos and Episteme (3):263-286.details
- Natural information, factivity and nomicity.Ben Baker - 2021 - Biology and Philosophy 36 (2):1-21.details
- structural, referential and normative information.Liqian Zhou - 2021 - Information and Culture 3 (56):303-322.details
- Towards a Contextual Approach to Data Quality.Stefano Canali - 2020 - Data 4 (5):90.details
- An Enactive-Ecological Approach to Information and Uncertainty.Eros Moreira de Carvalho & Giovanni Rolla - 2020 - Frontiers in Psychology 11 (Enaction and Ecological Psycholo):1-11.details
- Thinking about Semantic Information.Marcin Miłkowski - 2020 - Avant: Trends in Interdisciplinary Studies 11 (2):1-10.details
- Skolem’s “paradox” as logic of ground: The mutual foundation of both proper and improper interpretations.Vasil Penchev - 2020 - Epistemology eJournal (Elsevier: SSRN) 13 (19):1-16.details
- Two Kinds of Information Processing in Cognition.Mark Sprevak - 2020 - Review of Philosophy and Psychology 11 (3):591-611.details
- Experiences in the Biocontinuum: A New Foundation for Living Systems.Richard L. Summers - 2020 - Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars.details
- Does semantic information need to be truthful?Lundgren Björn - 2019 - Synthese 196 (7):2885-2906.details
- Destiny or Free Will Decision? A Life Overview from the Perspective of an Informational Modeling of Consciousness Part I: Information, Consciousness and Life Cycle.Florin Gaiseanu - 2019 - Gerontology and Geriatrics Studies 4 (3):1-6.details
- Digital Era Framework.Jörn Lengsfeld - 2019 - Bad Waldsee:details
- Digital Era Framework. Ein Bezugsrahmen für das Digitale Informationszeitalter.Jörn Lengsfeld - 2019 - 88339 Bad Waldsee, Deutschland:details
- Semantic Information G Theory and Logical Bayesian Inference for Machine Learning.Chenguang Lu - 2019 - Information 10 (8):261.details
- Representations are Rate-Distortion Sweet Spots.Manolo Martínez - 2019 - Philosophy of Science 86 (5):1214-1226.details
- A Bibliometric Analysis and Visualization of the Scientific Publications of Universities: A Study of Hamadan University of Medical Sciences during 1992-2018.Heidar Mokhtari, Seyedeh Zahra Mirezati, Mohammad Karim Saberi, Farzaneh Fazli & Mohammad Kharabati-Neshin - 2019 - Webology 16 (2):187-211.details
- E-text.Niels Finnemann - 2018 - Oxford Researech Encyclopedia - Literature.details
- La réalité du champ axiologique : cybernétique et pensée de l'information chez Raymond Ruyer [The reality of the axiological field: Cybernetics and the thinking of information in Raymond Ruyer].Philippe Gagnon - 2018 - Louvain-la-Neuve: Chromatika.details
- A Scientific Metaphysical Naturalisation of Information.Bruce Long - 2018 - Dissertation, University of Sydneydetails
- ISR is Still a Digital Ontology.Bruce Long - 2018 - Erkenntnis:1-16.details
- Information, Security, Privacy, and Anonymity : Definitional and Conceptual Issues.Björn Lundgren - 2018 - Dissertation, Kth Royal Institute of Technologydetails
- A Constructionist Philosophy of Logic.Patrick Allo - 2017 - Minds and Machines 27 (3):545-564.details
- Informação, conhecimento e modelos.Marcos Antonio Alves, Daniel Martínez-Ávila & Maria Cláudia Cabrini Gracio (eds.) - 2017 - Campinas-Marília/Brasil: Coleção CLE-Unicamp/Cultura Acadêmica-UNESP.details
- The Changing Nature of the Information Supply Chain.Rodney Beard - 2017 - IAFOR. Journal of Business and Management 2 (1):36-48.details
- Information-not-thing: further problems with and alternatives to the belief that information is physical.Jesse David Dinneen & Christian Brauner - 2017 - Proceedings of 2017 CAIS-ACSI Conference.details
- Hard and Soft Logical Information.Allo Patrick - 2017 - Journal of Logic and Computation:1-20.details
- How a Simple Circle Controls the Whole Universe.Ilexa Yardley - 2017 - Https://Medium.Com/the-Circular-Theory/.details
- From big data to important information.Yaneer Bar-Yam - 2016 - Complexity 21 (S2):73-98.details
- Radar, Modems, and Air Defense Systems: Noise as a Data Communication Problem in the 1950s.Shawn M. Bullock - 2016 - Perspectives on Science 24 (1):73-92.details
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