The Informational Turn » Philosophy and/of Information http://theinformationalturn.net Including Philosophy and/of Information, Logic and Epistemology Sun, 15 Jan 2012 15:23:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Symposium: Luciano Floridi, The Philosophy of Information http://theinformationalturn.net/philosophy_information/symposium-luciano-floridi-the-philosophy-of-information/ http://theinformationalturn.net/philosophy_information/symposium-luciano-floridi-the-philosophy-of-information/#comments Wed, 28 Dec 2011 03:44:04 +0000 admin http://theinformationalturn.net/?p=693 Etica & Politica

Gustavo Cevolani
Strongly semantic information and verisimilitude

Massimo Durante
Normativity, Constructionism, and Constraining Affordances

Don Fallis
Floridi on Disinformation

David Gamez
Information and Consciousness

Jakob Krebs
Philosophy of Information and Pragmatistic Understanding of Information

Marty J. Wolf
Analysis, Clarification and Extension of the Theory of Strongly Semantic Information

Anthony F. Beavers
Historicizing Floridi

]]> http://theinformationalturn.net/philosophy_information/symposium-luciano-floridi-the-philosophy-of-information/feed/ 0 The Informational Turn in Philosophy http://theinformationalturn.net/philosophy_information/the-informational-turn-in-philosophy/ http://theinformationalturn.net/philosophy_information/the-informational-turn-in-philosophy/#comments Sat, 17 Dec 2011 05:31:48 +0000 admin http://theinformationalturn.net/?p=691 The article whence this blog got its name.

]]> http://theinformationalturn.net/philosophy_information/the-informational-turn-in-philosophy/feed/ 0 The Future of Philosophy: ‘Information First’ http://theinformationalturn.net/philosophy_information/the-future-of-philosophy-information-first/ http://theinformationalturn.net/philosophy_information/the-future-of-philosophy-information-first/#comments Fri, 25 Nov 2011 04:16:03 +0000 admin http://theinformationalturn.net/?p=689 http://philosophy-compass.com/2011/11/23/the-future-of-philosophy-information-first-by-luciano-floridi/

]]> http://theinformationalturn.net/philosophy_information/the-future-of-philosophy-information-first/feed/ 0 Computational Philosophy CFP – AISB/IACAP World Congress – July 2012 http://theinformationalturn.net/philosophy_information/computational-philosophy-cfp-aisbiacap-world-congress-july-2012/ http://theinformationalturn.net/philosophy_information/computational-philosophy-cfp-aisbiacap-world-congress-july-2012/#comments Sat, 19 Nov 2011 09:01:23 +0000 admin http://theinformationalturn.net/?p=685 Call for Papers: Symposium on Computational Philosophy

To be held as part of the

AISB/IACAP World Congress 2012
in honour of Alan Turing

July 2nd to 6th, 2012
University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK

See http://events.cs.bham.ac.uk/turing12

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]]> http://theinformationalturn.net/philosophy_information/solomonoff-85th-memorial-conference/feed/ 0 Upcoming Talk http://theinformationalturn.net/philosophy_information/upcoming-talk/ http://theinformationalturn.net/philosophy_information/upcoming-talk/#comments Fri, 28 Oct 2011 09:04:18 +0000 admin http://theinformationalturn.net/?p=665 I am giving a talk next Friday at my department’s logic seminar series. Here are the details:

Title: The Logic of Knowledge and the Flow of Information

Abstract: In this talk I cover some work still in development which concerns the notions of information and knowledge as exemplified in Fred Dretske’s ‘Knowledge and The Flow of Information’. In particular, I cover (1) some work on the logic of information flow and (2) the issue of developing an epistemic logic which captures Dretske’s notion of knowledge as a semi-penetrating operator.

]]> http://theinformationalturn.net/philosophy_information/upcoming-talk/feed/ 0 CFP and bursaries for workshop on philosophy of information http://theinformationalturn.net/philosophy_information/cfp-and-bursaries-for-workshop-on-philosophy-of-information/ http://theinformationalturn.net/philosophy_information/cfp-and-bursaries-for-workshop-on-philosophy-of-information/#comments Mon, 17 Oct 2011 15:21:26 +0000 admin http://theinformationalturn.net/?p=651 Submissions are invited for the Fourth Workshop on the Philosophy of Information, which will take place at the University of Hertfordshire, 10-11 May 2012.
The topic this year will be the intersections between PI, epistemology and philosophical semantics.

The authors of the selected papers will be eligible for bursaries that will cover transportation, accommodation and subsistence.
Bursaries will be awarded on the basis of need and scientific merit.

Please send your submission to
Mrs Penny Driscoll <p.j.driscoll2@herts.ac.uk>

]]> http://theinformationalturn.net/philosophy_information/cfp-and-bursaries-for-workshop-on-philosophy-of-information/feed/ 0 The Difference that Makes a Difference 2011 Programme and Proceedings http://theinformationalturn.net/philosophy_information/the-difference-that-makes-a-difference-2011-programme-and-proceedings/ http://theinformationalturn.net/philosophy_information/the-difference-that-makes-a-difference-2011-programme-and-proceedings/#comments Mon, 10 Oct 2011 05:15:20 +0000 admin http://theinformationalturn.net/?p=646 can now be found at http://www.dtmd2011.info/programme

Most presentations (including mine) have an abstract (pdf file), presentation (pdf file of the presentation slides) and a podcast (mp3 file of the live audio recording of the presentation).

]]> http://theinformationalturn.net/philosophy_information/the-difference-that-makes-a-difference-2011-programme-and-proceedings/feed/ 0 Entropy and information divergence http://theinformationalturn.net/philosophy_information/entropy-and-information-divergence/ http://theinformationalturn.net/philosophy_information/entropy-and-information-divergence/#comments Thu, 29 Sep 2011 04:11:25 +0000 admin http://theinformationalturn.net/?p=631 The Kullback–Leibler (KL) divergence is a non-symmetric measure of the difference between two probability distributions P and Q:


KL divergence: D_{KL}(P || Q) = \Sigma_{i}P(O_{i}) log \frac{P(O_{i}}{P(Q_{i})}

In this piece [page 133] a neat example is given, showing how this measure can be used to quantify the `truthlikeness’ of a probability measure.

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