Philosophical Views about Digital Information and Relational Schemata
Μάρκος Δενδρινός · Lincoln (University of Nebraska) · 2006
Philosophy of Information is an active contemporary branch of philosophy, dealing with problems in the analysis of the concept of information, in semantics, in the study of intelligence, in the relation between information and nature, and in the investigation of values[1]. There are many contributions about the ontological nature of information, the definition of data and the philosophical approaches to semantic information; one important publication is the review presentation of Floridi in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy[2], where amongst others he introduces an extension of Mathematical theory of Communication (Sannon’s information theory[3]) in the area of semantics. One of the open problems in philosophy of information presented by Floridi is the problem of localization, whether information could be naturalized[4]. The externalists / extensionalists (for example, Barwise[5] or Dretske[6]) have the difficult duty to present how information resides in the world independently of the informee and the sense under which an external object constitutes information. The internalists / intentionalists (for example, Fodor[7],[8] or Searle[9]) have the opposite duty to explain