Philosophy of Information

Informationen zum Autor Dov M. Gabbay is Augustus De Morgan Professor Emeritus of Logic at the Group of Logic, Language and Computation, Department of Computer Science, King's College London. He has authored over four hundred and fifty research papers and over thirty research monographs. He is editor of several international Journals, and many reference works and Handbooks of Logic. Klappentext Information is a recognized fundamental notion across the sciences and humanities! which is crucial to understanding physical computation! communication! and human cognition. This book brings together various perspectives on information. It includes interdisciplinary themes across the traditional boundaries of natural sciences! and humanities. Zusammenfassung Information is a recognized fundamental notion across the sciences and humanities! which is crucial to understanding physical computation! communication! and human cognition. This book brings together various perspectives on information. It includes interdisciplinary themes across the traditional boundaries of natural sciences! and humanities.

List of contents

1 Introduction
2 Philosophy and information
3 Foundation, Major technical approaches
4 Informatics: Major themes in transforming/using information
5 Information in the Sciences & Humanities
6 Epilogue, future perspectives and research directions (Editors)

Product details

• Authors: Pieter Adriaans
• Assisted by: Pieter Adriaans (Editor), Dov M. Gabbay (Editor), Paul Thagard (Editor), Johan van Benthem (Editor), Johan F.A.K. van Benthem (Editor), John Woods (Editor), Dov M. Gabbay (Editor of the series), Thagard Paul (Editor of the series), Woods John (Editor of the series)
• Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.11.2008
• EAN: 9780444517265
• ISBN: 978-0-444-51726-5
• No. of pages: 1000
• Series: Handbook of the Philosophy of Science; Handbook of the Philosophy of; Handbook of the Philosophy of Science
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works; COMPUTERS / Information Theory, REFERENCE / General, Reference works, Information theory