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Minds and Machines
Published in: Minds and Machines 1/2011

01-02-2011

Giovanni Sommaruga (ed): Formal Theories of Information: From Shannon to Semantic Information Theory and General Concepts of Information

Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 5363, Springer, New York, 2009, vii+269, $ 64.95, ISBN 978-3-642-00658-6

Author: Giuseppe Primiero

Published in: Minds and Machines | Issue 1/2011

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A unifying theory of information is a constantly returning theme for the sciences of the information age. The starting problem of this volume is the quest for a notion of information flexible enough to be used by each discipline and general as to satisfy the unique requirement of each individual science. “No theory can fulfil these two requirements other than a formal (mathematical) theory of information” (Sommaruga, Introduction, p. 3). Reflecting Weaver’s (1949) famous tripartite definition, the volume starts with a philosophical analysis (Floridi), then explores a significant range of syntactical (Bavaus, Calude), semantical (Kohlas and Schneuwly, Kohlas and Eichenberger, van Rooij, Seligman) and pragmatical (Devlin) approaches, aiming at a non-elusive philosophy of the information sciences. To us, this comprehensive collection offers the opportunity of reconsidering some of the recurrent themes in this area, with the restricted objective of finding a few of the items that might shape the future research agenda. …
previous article Don Ross et al. (eds.), Distributed Cognition and the Will

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Title
Giovanni Sommaruga (ed): Formal Theories of Information: From Shannon to Semantic Information Theory and General Concepts of Information
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 5363, Springer, New York, 2009, vii+269, $ 64.95, ISBN 978-3-642-00658-6
Author
Giuseppe Primiero
Publication date
01-02-2011
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Published in
Minds and Machines / Issue 1/2011
Print ISSN: 0924-6495
Electronic ISSN: 1572-8641
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11023-011-9228-0

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