How to achieve a unified theory of information

Hofkirchner, Wolfgang

doi:10.31269/triplec.v7i2.114

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“…Recently, a number of more explicitly philosophical conceptualisations of information have begun to appear including the semantic theory of information due to Floridi (2004a), and what profess to be proto-scientific theories of information as formulated by Capurro and Hjørland (2003), Capurro (2009) andHofkirchner (2009;2011a;2011b).…”

Section: Critical Information Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

Race: The Difference That Makes a Difference

Ali

2012

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During the last two decades, critical enquiry into the nature of race has begun to enter the philosophical mainstream. The same period has also witnessed the emergence of an increasingly visible discourse about the nature of information within a diverse range of popular and academic settings. What is yet to emerge, however, is engagement at the interface of the two disciplines -critical race theory and the philosophy of information. In this paper, I shall attempt to contribute towards the emergence of such a field of enquiry by using a reflexive hermeneutic (or interpretative) approach to analyze the concept of race from an information-theoretical perspective, while reflexively analyzing the concept of information from a critical race-theoretical perspective. In order to facilitate a more concrete enquiry, the concept of information formulated by cyberneticist Gregory Bateson and the concept of race formulated by philosopher Charles W Mills will be placed at the centre of analysis. Crucially, both concepts can be shown to have a connection to the critical philosophy of Immanuel Kant, thereby motivating their selection as topics of examination on critical reflexive hermeneutic grounds.

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Section: Critical Information Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

Race: The Difference That Makes a Difference

Ali

2012

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“…LIR thus can provide bridging concepts or "glue" between the concept of semantic information at the lowest data level and broader applications. LIR places this concept, and thus Hofkirchner's "superconcept" [23] of information, in a naturalized physical, metaphysical and logical context. Information is both a means to model the world and part of the world that is modeled, and LIR describes the dialectic relation between them.…”

Section: Information In Lirmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Hofkirchner [23] among others has argued for the desirability of a UTI that would encompass the different manifestations of information processes. Such a UTI should be capable of balancing the apparently contradictory properties of information-physical and non-physical, universal and particular-without reduction.…”

Section: A General or Unified Theory Of Informationmentioning

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Philosophy of Information: Revolution in Philosophy. Towards an Informational Metaphilosophy of Science

Brenner

2017

Philosophies

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Abstract:In the most general if unconventional terms, science is the study of how man is part of the universe. Philosophy is the study of man's ideas of the universe and how man differs from the rest of the universe. It has of course been recognized that philosophy and science are not totally disjointed. Science is in any case not a monolithic entity but refers to knowledge as the results of reasoning and both invasive and non-invasive experiment. We argue that the philosophy of science, in studying the foundations, methods and implications of science and the link between philosophy and science, must now take into account the impact of the rapidly developing science and philosophy of information. We suggest that the philosophy of information is in fact a metaphilosophy, since informational processes operate in all the sciences and their philosophies. The simplest definition of (a) metaphilosophy is that of a set of statements about (a) philosophy, and any definition of a metaphilosophy thus requires one of philosophy and of the task of philosophy as well. According to Sellars, "the aim of philosophy is to understand how things in the broadest possible sense of the term hang together in the broadest possible sense of the term". In this paper, we focus on the recursive thought underlying those statements as real processes, occurring both in and between the fundamental and the meta-level. We propose a non-standard logic, Logic in Reality, as the logic of those processes. The metaphilosophy of information is thus a framework for talking about the scientific aspects of philosophy and the philosophical aspects of science. Both Logic in Reality and the metaphilosophy of information provide a basis for understanding the physical and epistemological dynamics of existence, that is, from where the properties of things come that enable both them and the concepts of them to contrast, conflict and ultimately "hang together". We conclude that the current convergence of science and philosophy under the influence of information science constitutes a revolution in philosophy, that is, in how science and philosophy are done. Many of the issues discussed in the metaphilosophy of information may thus be viewed as part of an emerging informational metaphilosophy of science.

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“…LIR thus can provide bridging concepts or "glue" between the concept of semantic information at the lowest data level and broader applications. LIR places this concept, and thus Hofkirchner's "superconcept" [10] of information, in a naturalized physical, metaphysical and logical context. Information is both a means to model the world and part of the world that is modeled, and LIR describes the dialectic relation between them.…”

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On Representation in Information Theory

Brenner¹

2011

Information

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Abstract:Semiotics is widely applied in theories of information. Following the original triadic characterization of reality by Peirce, the linguistic processes involved in information-production, transmission, reception, and understanding-would all appear to be interpretable in terms of signs and their relations to their objects. Perhaps the most important of these relations is that of the representation-one, entity, standing for or representing some other. For example, an index-one of the three major kinds of signs-is said to represent something by being directly related to its object. My position, however, is that the concept of symbolic representations having such roles in information, as intermediaries, is fraught with the same difficulties as in representational theories of mind. I have proposed an extension of logic to complex real phenomena, including mind and information (Logic in Reality; LIR), most recently at the 4th International Conference on the Foundations of Information Science (Beijing, August, 2010). LIR provides explanations for the evolution of complex processes, including information, that do not require any entities other than the processes themselves. In this paper, I discuss the limitations of the standard relation of representation. I argue that more realistic pictures of informational systems can be provided by reference to information as an energetic process, following the categorial ontology of LIR. This approach enables naïve, anti-realist conceptions of anti-representationalism to be avoided, and enables an approach to both information and meaning in the same novel logical framework.

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How to achieve a unified theory of information

Cited by 34 publications

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Race: The Difference That Makes a Difference

Race: The Difference That Makes a Difference

Philosophy of Information: Revolution in Philosophy. Towards an Informational Metaphilosophy of Science

On Representation in Information Theory

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