Phenomenon of Information (eBook)

Mario Pérez-Montoro is a Professor in the Department of Information Science at the Universitat de Barcelona and IN3 researcher (Internet Interdisciplinary Institute). His work focuses on conceptual, semantic, epistemological and pragmatic aspects of Information Science and Knowledge Management.

Part 1 AcknowledgmentsPart 2 INTRODUCTION. The Scope and Characteristics of the Phenomenon of InformationChapter 3 1 IntroductionChapter 4 2 Description of Information FlowChapter 5 3 Aim and Scope of this WorkPart 6 CHAPTER 1. The Mathematical Theory of Communication: Constraints for a Semantics of InformationChapter 7 1 IntroductionChapter 8 2 The Amount of InformationChapter 9 3 Amount of Information and Information FlowChapter 10 4 Mathematical Constraints and Information ContentPart 11 CHAPTER 2. Dretske's Analysis of Information: A Semantic Approach in Probabilistic TermsChapter 12 1 IntroductionChapter 13 2 The Dretskean ApproachChapter 14 3 Difficulties with Dretske's ApproachChapter 15 4 Summary and ConclusionsPart 16 CHAPTER 3. The Relational Theory of Meaning: A Proposal for a Global Semantics of InformationChapter 17 1 IntroductionChapter 18 2 A New Conceptual Framework: The Relational Theory of MeaningChapter 19 3 Linguistic Meaning and Informational ContentChapter 20 4 Agents and Information ContentChapter 21 5 The Relational Theory of Meaning versus Dretske's Definition of Informational ContentChapter 22 6 Reliability, Fallibility, and ConstraintsChapter 23 7 Summary and ConclusionsPart 24 CHAPTER 4. Toward a New Definition of Informational Content: The Extensional ApproachChapter 25 1 IntroductionChapter 26 2 The Extensional ApproachChapter 27 3 Channels, Reliability, and FallibilityChapter 28 4 The Extensional Approach versus the Relational Theory of Meaning and the Dretskean ApproachChapter 29 5 Pure Informational Content and Incremental Informational ContentChapter 30 6 Summary and ConclusionsPart 31 BibliographyPart 32 IndexPart 33 About the Author