Information and Information Flow (eBook)

Title 2
Table of Content 4
Introduction Varieties of Information 7
1 The Syntactic Approach to Information 13
1|1 The Syntactic Approach to Information I 16
1|2 The Syntactic Approach to Information II 32
1 .3 Algorithmic Information Theory 66
2 The Semantic Approach to Information What Information is given by that Sentence? 73
2|1 Explicating Information by Possible Worlds 75
2 .2 Strong Semantic Information 90
2 .3 Do You Get Information in a Logic Course? 95
3 The Causal Approach to Information The Information You Have But Do Not Believe 110
3|1 The Causal Theory of Information Flow 112
3|2 Information in Externalist Epistemology 124
3|3 Perception, Belief, and the Problem of Misrepresentation 135
4 Situation Theory and Information Bringing Ontology back into Information Theory 148
4 .1 The Framework of Situation Semantics 150
4|2 Information Architecture and Constraints 163
5 Information Flow in Distributed Systems Renaming Your ‘Evening Star’ Yields New Information 176
5 .1 Information Flow Within the Situation Framework 178
5 .2 Information Flow and Paraconsistency 195
5|3 Get Yourself Involved into Impossible Situations 211
5 .4 Genetic Information? 225
Epilogue 238
Further References 240
Glossary of Notation 243