Artículos de revistas
A Pluralist View about Information
Fecha
2015-12Registro en:
Lombardi, Olimpia Iris; Fortin, Sebastian Ezequiel; Vanni, Leonardo; A Pluralist View about Information; University of Chicago Press; Philosophy of Science; 82; 5; 12-2015; 1248-1259
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Autor
Lombardi, Olimpia Iris
Fortin, Sebastian Ezequiel
Vanni, Leonardo
Resumen
Focusing on Shannon information, this article shows that, even on the basis of the same formalism, there may be different interpretations of the concept of information, and that disagreements may be deep enough to lead to very different conclusions about the informational characterization of certain physical situations. On this basis, a pluralist view is argued for, according to which the concept of information is primarily a formal concept that can adopt different interpretations that are not mutually exclusive, but each useful in a different specific context.