List of figures ............................................... via
List of tables .................................................. x
List of contributors ........................................... xi
Introduction: mapping the pliilosophy of information ............ 1
PART I. Basic ideas ............................................. 5
1 Physics and information ...................................... 7
N.L. Harshman
2 Probability and information ................................. 15
Peter Milne
3 Computation and information ................................. 23
Gualtiero Piccinini and Andrea Scarantino
4 Mathematical theory of information (Shannon) ................ 30
Olimpia Lombardi
5 Algorithmic information theory .............................. 37
Alexander Shen
6 Semantic information ........................................ 44
Luciano Floridi
7 The method of abstraction ................................... 50
Luciano Floridi
PART II
Quantitative and formal aspects ................................ 57
8 The logic of information .................................... 59
Patrick Allo
9 Information processing and instructional information ........ 77
Nir Fresco and Marty J. Wolf
10 Information in the philosophy of computer science ........... 90
Giuseppe Primiero
11 Information in the philosophy of AI and the symbol
grounding problem .......................................... 107
Selmer Bringsjord
12 The philosophy of distributed information .................. 120
Vincent F. Hendricks and Rasmus K. Rendsvig
13 Modeling information ....................................... 137
Patrick Grim
14 The decisional value of information ........................ 153
Martin Peterson
15 The philosophy of mathematical information ................. 164
Marcello D'Agostino
16 Bayesianism and information ................................ 180
Michael Wilde and Jon Williamson
PART III
Natural and physical aspects .................................. 189
17 The philosophy of data ..................................... 191
Sabina Leonelli
18 Informational metaphysics: the informational nature of
reality .................................................... 203
Terrell Ward Bynum
19 The philosophy of quantum information ...................... 219
Chris Timpson
20 Information and causality .................................. 235
Phyllis Illari and Federica Russo
21 Philosophy of science and information ...................... 249
Ioannis Votsis
22 Teleosemantics and natural information ..................... 263
John Symons
23 The philosophy of biological information ................... 277
Barton Moffatt
24 The philosophy of semiotic information ..................... 290
Sara Cannizzaro
25 The philosophy of communication and information ............ 304
Ulrich Stegmann
PART IV
Human and semantic aspects .................................... 319
26 Information and cognition .................................. 321
Fred Adams
21 Mis- and dis-information ................................... 332
Don Fallis
28 Information-theoretic philosophy of mind ................... 347
William Bechtel and Jason Winning
29 The moral value of information and information ethics ...... 361
Mariarosaria Taddeo
30 Art and the information society ............................ 375
Katherine Thomson-Jones
31 The interpretative value of information .................... 386
Jan Kyrre Berg Friis
32 The philosophy of law in an information society ............ 396
Ugo Pagallo and Massimo Durante
33 The spiritual value of information ......................... 408
George Medley
Index ...................................................... 422
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