How to achieve a unified theory of information

Hofkirchner, Wolfgang

doi:10.31269/vol7iss2pp357-368

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“…LIR provides the basis for saying that there is no absolute disjunction between this level of reality and those to which the more complex concepts of information apply. Many proposals of ways to unify these concepts have been made, but I note a very recent one of Hofkirchner (2009). His approach to a unified theory of information (UTI) is to eliminate the absolute and in my view artificial separation between critical concepts of information in favor of a dialectical relationship similar to the ancient intuition of "unity-in-diversity."…”

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“…It is not a new concept that higher LoAs subsume aspects of semantic information. What LIR does is to place this concept, and thus the "superconcept" (Hofkirchner 2009) of information in a naturalized physical, metaphysical, and logical context. Information is thus both a means to model the world and part of the world that is modeled (by LoAs), and LIR describes the relation between them.…”

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A Logic of Ethical Information

Brenner

2010

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The work of Luciano Floridi lies at the interface of philosophy, information science and technology, and ethics, an intersection whose existence and significance he was one of the first to establish. His closely related concepts of a philosophy of information (PI), informational structural realism, information logic (IL), and information ethics (IE) provide a new ontological perspective from which moral concerns can be addressed, especially but not limited to those arising in connection with the new information and communication technologies. In this paper, I relate Floridi's approach to another novel perspective, namely, that of an extension of logic to complex real processes, including those of information production and transfer. This non-propositional, non-truth-functional logic (logic in reality (LIR)) is grounded in the fundamental dualism (dynamic opposition) inherent in energy and accordingly present at all levels of reality. The LIR description of the dynamics of processes and their evolution is relevant to what Floridi refers to as the possible nonlinguistic aspects of information. It suggests answers to some of Floridi's "outstanding problems" in PI related to the ontological status of information and how it is used in cognition. Floridi's IL retains the formal structure of the doxastic and epistemic logics from which he correctly distinguishes it and is the basis for his conceptual PI. However, LIR fulfills Floridi's implied requirement that logic be regarded as a natural phenomenon dealing with other natural phenomena, recovering its original philosophical function. LIR provides a logical foundation for discussion of ethical questions based on kinds of information that complements IL. Both are reconsiderations of logic that, as Marijuan suggests, may be necessary for the advancement of information technology in an ethical direction (cf. also Brenner). IE focuses on entities as constituted by information in an overall strategy that generalizes the concept of moral agents. LIR and its related ontology naturalize critical aspects of Floridi's theses, especially, the moral value of being as such and a non-separable joint responsibility of individuals and groups. I compare IE to other current approaches to ethics and information technology (e.g., phenomenological and social constructivist). Ethical information is defined "ecologically" in process terms as reality in a physical space (cf. Floridi), with an intentional "valence," positive and negative, in the morally valued interaction between producer and receiver. LIR is neither topic-neutral nor context independent and can support an ethics involving apparently contradictory perspectives (e.g., internalist and externalist). Ethics involves practical reasoning, and unlike standard logics, LIR supports Magnani's approach to abductive reasoning in rational moral decision making. The basis of moral responsibility and the consequent behavior of individuals involved in information and communications technologies is the same logical-metaphysical principle of dy...

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A Logic of Ethical Information

Brenner

2010

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“…Some scholars believe that it is necessary to form a unified theory of information and which is also feasible, although it can be obtained at different theoretical and practical levels. Wolfgang Hofkirchner [1] and Søren Brier [2] are two of representative scholars.…”

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Truth Analysis of Definition of Information

Nan

2017

Proceedings of the IS4SI 2017 Summit DIGITALISATION FOR a SUSTAINABLE SOCIETY, Gothenburg, Sweden, 12–16 June 2017.

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The definition follows the propositional logic, the definition of information is no exception. In recent years, the starting point of the research on the definition of information involves generally investigation of the history of the concept, interdisciplinary research and different aspects of cognition that includes ontology, epistemology, and linguistics and so on, the understanding about the definition of information is divergent. As long as it is about definition of information, regardless what kind of study, however, follows the propositional logic. So the true and false judgment about the definition of information is actually judgment on the proposition of the definition of information. This paper classifies various kinds of intension and definition of the information in the propositional structure by analysing the propositional structure of definition of information and various kinds of defined method about definition of information.

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“…Lupasco provides the basic formalism for discussing the "intertwining" of internal and external, present and potential (or absent) awareness and interactions, the "subjective active and the objective passive", ultimately of man and nature in their unityin-duality noted by Hofkirchner [21]. Application of the philosophy of information thus brings out an ontological domain, which Wu has called that of indirect existence as part of total existence, something that is objective and complex, having meaning and value and thereby constituting the elusive thing-initself that does not require further empirical proof in the reductionist classical sense.…”

Section: The Metaphilosophy Of Information Phenomenologymentioning

confidence: 99%