Tuesday, 28 February
2006
Explanation and Information
Peter Machamer & James Bogen,
U. Pittsburgh, History & Philosophy of Science
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning
Abstract:
Information-talk has become ubiquitous across many of the
sciences, especially in biology, neuroscience and cognitive science. Yet the concept of information, or we
shall show, concepts, are notoriously ill-defined, vague or downright
stupefying. In this paper we try to delineate three
(four) different, possibly legitimate, uses of information that
are used: Mathematical (Shannon-Weaver), mechanical
information (information that controls an output & information
that represents an input), and information for rational use (usually
inferences.) We shall
provide brief legitimate examples of each type and make some remarks
about how such informations work in explanations.
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