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
Category: Philosophy and/of Information
Ray Solomonoff 85th Memorial Conference
Upcoming Talk
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.
CFP and bursaries for workshop on philosophy of information
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 <[email protected]>
The Difference that Makes a Difference 2011 Programme and Proceedings
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).
Entropy and information divergence
The Kullback–Leibler (KL) divergence is a non-symmetric measure of the difference between two probability distributions P and Q:
KL divergence:
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.
Information Flow: Logics for the (r)age of information
Information is what information does
Theories of Information Reading Group
I was surprised to receive an email today promoting an incipient reading group at The University of Melbourne focusing on theories of information.
Here is some information on the group:
We aim to explore information in all its facets: from the 1950s mathematical theories of information (Shannon and Weaver, Wiener, Cybernetics etc.), to semiotics (Jakobson and Eco) and various contemporary philosophies of information (Dretske, Floridi etc.). Given the way information interfaces with a huge variety of, if not all, knowledge disciplines, a proper engagement with the subject will of necessity be interdisciplinary – all are welcome to attend!
Details for the first reading:
Date and Time: Thursday 11 August, 5pm
Location: Wrigley Room, 1888 Building, The University of Melbourne
Reading: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/information-semantic
Contact me for more information.