Society for the Philosophy of Information

IACAP (the International Association for Computing And Philosophy), sponsors
the Philosophy of Communication and Information Session
XXIII World Congress of Philosophy, Athens (Greece), 4–10.8.2013

Via Henry Story. Alexandre Monin recently gave a course in French on the philosophy and the ontology of the web. It was recorded and placed online http://www.atmoc.fr/resources/Monnin-discussion.MP3 

Semantic Information and the Trivialization of Logic: Floridi on the Scandal of Deduction

Interesting quoatation from Ask a Philsopher website:

https://askaphilosopher.wordpress.com/2013/04/29/what-keeps-a-philosophe...

"Thus, many older contemporary philosophers grew up with an emphasis on philosophy of language. This was succeeded by intense interest in philosophy of mind. Now philosophy of information is the field for young academics."

"Data has emerged as such a critical part of modern life that it has entered into the realm of art, where data-driven visual experiences challenge viewers to find personal meaning from a sea of information, a task that is increasingly present in every aspect of our information-infused lives."

This is a classic text that has been left quite under-appreciated. It offers a semiotic analysis of information, but the pragmatic theory of information extends beyond the semiotic tradition. In my view, this is one of the best and most sophisticated accounts of information.

The book is out of print, so check your institution library. A few left on Amazon.

Information concepts pervade biology—transcription, translation, noise, redundancy, computation, network, complexity, processing, signal, digital, code, blueprint – yet, questions about what information is, how it is to be measured, and whether such notions are even useful in science, remain unanswered. For example, in evolutionary studies, the notion of information transfer is commonplace: DNA stores information that is later transmitted along a signaling pathway and translated by a ribosome.

The 5th International Conference on the Foundations of Information Science will be held in Moscow under ISIS support.

21-24 May 2013

From the website:

"As informed on the occasion of FIS2010 in Beijin (see report in BITrum-news September 2010), the recently founded International Society for Information Science (ISIS) shall held periodically international gatherings following the series of FIS conferences (Madrid 1994, Vienna 1996, Paris 2005, Beijin 2010). The first of these conferences -under the umbrella of ISIS- shall be held in 2013 in Moscow, Russia"

Here some Associations and Societies of potential interest for the Philosophy of Information:

• International Society for Information Studies: http://is4is.unileon.es/
• BITrum Research Group: http://en.bitrum.unileon.es/bitrum-members
• Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T): https://www.asis.org/
• Society for Information Science, India: http://www.sis.org.in/about-us.html

The power of network science, the beauty of network visualization

http://barabasilab.neu.edu/networksciencebook/