The philosophy of information:
Includes bibliographical references
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| adam_text | Contents
Preface
xii
Acknowledgements
xv
List of figures
xvii
List of tables
xix
Ust
of most common acronyms
xx
Chapter
1—
What is the philosophy of information?
1
Summary
1
1.1
Introduction
1
1.2
Philosophy of artificial intelligence as a premature paradigm of PI
2
1.3
The historical emergence of PI
5
1.4
The dialectic of reflection and the emergence of PI
7
1.5
The definition of PI
13
1.6
The analytic approach to PI
17
1.7
The metaphysical approach to PI
19
1.8
PI as philosophia
prima
24
Conclusion
25
Chapter
2—
Open problems in the philosophy of information
26
Summary
26
2.1
Introduction
26
2.2
David Hubert s view
28
2.3
Analysis
30
2.4
Semantics
33
2.5
Intelligence
35
2.6
Nature
42
2.7
Values
44
Conclusion
45
Chapter
3—
The method of levels of abstraction
46
Summary
46
3.1
Introduction
47
3.2
Some definitions and preliminary examples
48
3.2.1
Typed variable
48
3.2.2
Observable
48
3.2.3
Six examples
49
VI
CONTENTS
3.2.4
Levels of abstraction
52
3.2.5
Behaviour
53
3.2.6
Gradient of abstraction
54
3.3
A classic interpretation of the method of abstraction
58
3.4
Some philosophical applications
60
3.4.1
Agents
60
3.4.2
The Turing test
61
3.4.2.1
Turing s imitation game
61
3.4.2.2
Turing s test revisited
62
3.4.2.3
Turing discussed
63
3.4.3
Emergence
63
3.4.4
Artificial life
65
3.4.5
Quantum observation
66
3.4.6
Decidable observation
66
3.4.7
Simulation and functionalism
67
3.5
The philosophy of the method of abstraction
68
3.5.1
Levels of organization and of explanation
69
3.5.2
Conceptual schemes
71
3.5.3
Pluralism without relativism
74
3.5.4
Realism without
descriptivism
75
3.5.6
Constructionism
76
Conclusion
78
Chapter
4—
Semantic information and the veridicality thesis
80
Summary
80
4.1
Introduction
80
4.2
The data-based approach to semantic information
82
4.3
The general definition
ofinformation
83
4.4
Understanding data
85
4.5
Taxonomic
neutrality
86
4.6
Typological neutrality
87
4.7
Ontological neutrality
90
4.8
Genetic neutrality
91
4.9
Alethic neutrality
92
4.10
Why false information is not a kind of semantic information
93
4.11
Why false information is pseudo-information: Attributive vs
predicative use
97
4.12
Why false information is pseudo-information: A semantic argument
98
4.12.1
First step: Too much information
99
4.12.2
Second step: Excluding tautologies
100
CONTENTS
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4.12.3
Third step: Excluding
contradictions
100
4.12.4
Fourth step: Excluding inconsistencies
101
4.12.5
Last step: Only contingently true propositions count as
semantic information
103
4.13
The definition of semantic information
104
Conclusion
106
Chapter
5—
Outline of a theory of strongly semantic information
108
Summary
108
5.1
Introduction
109
5.2
The Bar-Hillel-Carnap Paradox 111
5.3
Three criteria of information equivalence
114
5.4
Three desiderata for TSSI
117
5.5
Degrees of vacuity and inaccuracy
117
5.6
Degrees of informativeness
123
5.7
Quantities of vacuity and of semantic information
125
5.8
The solution of the Bar-Hillel—Carnap Paradox
127
5.9
TSSI and the scandal of deduction
129
Conclusion
132
Chapter
6—
The symbol grounding problem
134
Summary
134
6.1
Introduction
134
6.2
The symbol grounding problem
136
6.3
The
representationalist
approach
137
6.3.1
A hybrid model for the solution of the
SGP
138
6.3.1.1
SGP
and the symbolic theft hypothesis
142
6.3.2
A functional model for the solution of the
SGP
143
6.3.3
An intentional model for the solution of the
SGP
144
6.3.3.1
Clarion
146
6.4
The semi-representationalist approach
149
6.4.1
An epistemological model for the solution of the
SGP
149
6.4.2
The physical symbol grounding problem
150
6.4.3
A model based on temporal delays and predictive semantics
for the solution of the
SGP
153
6.5
The non-representationalist approach
155
6.5.1
A communication-based model for the solution of the
SGP
156
6.5.2
A behaviour-based model for the solution of the
SGP
157
6.5.2.1
Emulative learning and the rejection of representations
159
Conclusion
160
Vlil
CONTENTS
Chapter
7—
Action-based semantics
162
Summary
162
7.1
Introduction
162
7.2
Action-based Semantics
164
7.3
Two-machine artificial agents and their AbS
166
7.3.1
Three controversial aspects of AM2
172
7.3.2
Learning and performing rule through Hebb s rule
and local selection
173
7.4
From grounded symbols to grounded communication and abstractions
176
Conclusion
179
Chapter
8—
Semantic information and the correctness theory of truth
182
Summary
182
8.1
Introduction
183
8.2
First step: Translation
186
8.3
Second step: Polarization
188
8.4
Third step: Normalization
190
8.5
Fourth step: Verification and validation
193
8.6
Fifth step: Correctness
195
8.7
Some implications and advantages of the correctness theory of truth
199
8.7.1
Truthmakers and coherentism
199
8.7.2
Accessibility, bidimensionalism, and correspondentism
201
8.7.3
Types of semantic information and the variety of truths
203
8.7.4
A deflationist interpretation of falsehood as failure
205
8.7.5
The information-maptness of semantic paradoxes
205
Conclusion
208
Chapter
9—
The logical unsolvability of the Gettier problem
209
Summary
209
9.1
Introduction
210
9.2
Why the Gettier problem is unsolvable in principle
212
9.3
Three objections and replies
217
Conclusion
222
Chapter
10—
The logic of being informed
224
Summary
224
10.1
Introduction
224
10.2
Three logics of
information
226
10.3
Modelling being informed
228
10.3.1
/L satisfies Ab A2, A3, A5
229
10.3.2
Consistency and truth:
IL
satisfies A9 and A4
230
10.3.3
No reflectivity:
IL
does not satisfy
Aß, A8 232
CONTENTS
IX
10.3.4 Transmissibility:
IL
satisfies Ai0 and
Ап
236
10.3.5
Constructing the Information Base:
IL
satisfies A7
236
10.3.6
KTB-IL
237
10.4
Four epistemological implications of KTB-IL
238
10.4.1
Information overload in KTB-IL
238
10.4.2
In favour of the veridicality thesis
239
10.4.3
The relations between DL,
IL
and EL
240
10.4.4
Against the untouchable
241
Conclusion
243
Chapter
11—
Understanding
epistemic
relevance
244
Summary
244
11.1
Introduction
245
11.2
Epistemic
vs causal relevance
246
11.3
The basic case
249
11.3.1
Advantages of the basic case
249
11.3.2
Limits of the basic case
251
11.4
A probabilistic revision of the basic case
251
11.4.1
Advantages of the probabilistic revision
252
11.4.2
Limits of the probabilistic revision
252
11.5
A counterfactual revision of the probabilistic analysis
253
11.5.1
Advantages of the counterfactual revision
253
11.5.2
Limits of the counterfactual revision
253
11.6
A metatheoretical revision of the counterfactual analysis
254
11.7
Advantages of the metatheoretical revision
256
11.8
Some illustrative cases
257
11.9
Misinformation cannot be relevant
260
11.10
Two objections and replies
261
11.10.1
Completeness: No relevant semantic information for
semantically unable agents
261
11.10.2
Soundness: Rationality does not presuppose relevance
262
Conclusion
265
Chapter
12—
Semantic information and the network theory of account
267
Summary
267
12.1
Introduction
268
12.2
The nature of the upgrading problem: Mutual independence
268
12.3
Solving the upgrading problem: The network theory of account
274
12.4
Advantages of a network theory of account
279
12.5
Testing the network theory of account
284
Conclusion
288
X
CONTENTS
Chapter
13—
Consciousness, agents, and the knowledge game
290
Summary
290
13.1
Introduction
290
13.2
The knowledge game
296
13.3
The first and classic version of the knowledge game: Externally
inferable states
297
13.3.1
Synchronie
inferences: A fairer version of the knowledge game
298
13.3.2
Winners of the classic version
300
13.4
The second version of the knowledge game
301
13.5
The third version of the knowledge game
302
13.6
The fourth version of the knowledge game
307
13.7
Dretske s question and the knowledge game
309
Conclusion
313
Chapter
14—
Against digital ontology
316
Summary
316
14.1
Introduction
316
14.2
What is digital ontology? It from Bit
317
14.2.1
Digital ontology: From physical to metaphysical problems
320
14.3
The thought experiment
325
14.3.1
Stage
1:
Reality in itself is digital or analogue
327
14.3.2
Stage
2:
The stubborn legacy of the analogue
329
14.3.3
Stage
3:
The observer s analysis
330
14.3.4
Digital and analogue are features of the level of abstraction
332
14.4
Three objections and replies
334
Conclusion
337
Chapter
15—
A defence of informational structural realism
339
Summary
339
15.1
Introduction
340
15.2
First step: ESR and OSR are not incompatible
344
15.2.1
Indirect knowledge
345
15.2.2
Structuralism and the levels of abstraction
347
15.2.3
Ontologica!
commitments and levels of abstractions
348
15.2.4
How to reconcile ESR and OSR
349
15.3
Second step:
Relata are
not logically prior to all relations
353
15.4
Third step: The concept of a structural object is not empty
355
15.5
Informational structural realism
360
15.6
Ten objections and rephes
361
Conclusion
369
References
372
Index
401
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