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Dov M. Gabbay, King's College London, UK
Pieter Adriaans, Institute for Logic, Language and Computations, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Paul Thagard, University of Waterloo, Canada
Johan van Benthem, University of Amsterdam, Institute for Logic, Language & Computation, The Netherlands
John Woods, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
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Handbook of the Philosophy of Science,
Description
Information is a recognized fundamental notion across the sciences and humanities, which is crucial to understanding physical computation,
communication, and human cognition. The Philosophy of Information brings together the most important perspectives on information. It
includes major technical approaches, while also setting out the historical backgrounds of information as well as its contemporary role
in many academic fields. Also, special unifying topics are high-lighted that play across many fields, while we also aim at identifying
relevant themes for philosophical reflection. There is no established area yet of Philosophy of Information, and this Handbook can help
shape one, making sure it is well grounded in scientific expertise. As a side benefit, a book like this can facilitate contacts and collaboration
among diverse academic milieus sharing a common interest in information.
Audience
Researchers at the intersection of philosophy, computer science, informatics, logic, linguistics, cognitive science.
Contents
1 Introduction
1a Editorial on the overall role of information, and the structure of this book (Editors)
1b Philosophy of Information:
Concepts and History (P. Adriaans)
2 Philosophy and information
2a Epistemology and Information (F. Dretske)
2b Information and Philosophy
of Language (J.Groenendijk, H. Kamp and M. Stokhof)
2c Modern Trends in Philosophy of Information (L. Floridi)
2d Philosophy of Learning
(P. Adriaans)
3 Foundation, Major technical approaches
3a The Quantitative Theory of Information (F. Tops e and P. Harremo s)
3b
Logical Theories of Information (Johan van Benthem and Maricarmen Martinez)
3c Algorithmic Complexity (P. Gr nwald and
P. Vitanyi)
4 Informatics: Major themes in transforming/using information
4a Learning (K. Kelly)
4b Epistemic Logic and Information Update (A.
Baltag, L. Moss and H. van Ditmarsch)
4c Information Structure and Belief Revision (H. Rott)
4d Information, Processes and Games (S.
Abramsky)
4e Information and Beliefs in Game Theory (B. Walliser)
5 Information in the Sciences & Humanities
5a Information in Computer
Science (J. M. Dunn) 5b The Physics of Information (S. Bais and D.Farmer)
5c Information in Social Science (K. Devlin and
Duska Rosenberg)
5d Information in Artificial Intelligence (J. McCarthy)
5e Information and Cognitive Science (M. Boden)
5f Information in Biological
Systems (J. Collier)
6 Epilogue, future perspectives and research directions (Editors)
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Hardbound, 1000 pages, publication date: NOV-2008
ISBN-13: 978-0-444-51726-5
ISBN-10: 0-444-51726-X
Imprint: NORTH-HOLLAND
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