The Handbook on the Philosophy of Information website is a good resource. Drafts of chapters are available and there are some good videos of the public symposium for the event that was held in conjunction with the project.
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The Stories of Logic and Information
Too Much Information
‘Too Much Information’, an archived episode of the ‘Philoso?hy Talk’ radio program.
Philosophy and information studies
Have just been reading Philosophy and information studies, a comprehensive paper surveying work in the philosophy of information and philosophical work in information studies.
2010 Annual 3QD Philosophy Prize
The 3QD Philosophy Prize is an annual prize for the best blog writing in philosophy.
Ideas of the century: The philosophy of information
The Philosopher’s Magazine (TPM) has just made freely available Luciano Floridi’s contribution to its special edition 50th issue: Ideas of the century: The philosophy of information.
Course in Philosophy of Information
The Nordic Research School in Information Studies is hosting a course in Philosophy of Information.
Third Workshop in the Philosophy of Information
Jaakko Hintikka and Information in Philosophy
Though not something that I deliberately worked towards, I realise that much of the work I have done or am doing is in areas either initiated or influenced by Jaakko Hintikka.
- My honours thesis looked at game-theoretical semantics and independence-friendly logic, which Hintikka is the main architect of.
- I also work with epistemic logic quite a bit, of which Hintikka’s Knowledge and Belief: An Introduction to the Logic of the Two Notions is a seminal text.
- I am currently using Hintikka’s approach to analysing questions as requests for information in terms of epistemic modal logic for some research on informational relevance.
- The approaches to truthlikeness that I am using for information quantification make use of Hintikka’s distributive normal forms.
- The work by Bar-Hillel/Carnap on quantifying semantic information was extended by Hintikka.
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