Metaphysics of information in a tridimensional conceptual framework
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.36517/Argumentos.24.10Keywords:
Information. Epistemology. Brandom. Process Ontology. Metaphysics.Abstract
The purpose of this study is to expand one of the subjects that I aimed in my doctoral research and to point out developments in order to expand the philosophical value of the topic. The task consists of paving the ground for the construction of a three-dimensional metaphysical theory centered on the concept of information. The first dimension of this theory is an informational epistemology based on Floridi's levels of abstraction. The second dimension (semantic-pragmatic) is based on Brandom's philosophy of language and the third dimension is based on Seibt’s process ontology. The result is a versatile and dynamic theoretical metaphysical framework, which seeks to maintain a classic metaphysical model of property-entity-substance with a metaphysical core of process ontology. The task of exposing this Floridi-Brandom-Seibt theory is divided into four stages. In the first, I will give a general definition of information. In the second, I will define pragmatic information from the conceptual framework developed by Robert Brandom. These two steps results from a research partially developed in my thesis. The next two stages constitute a set of reflections that, so far, I consider relevant and possible further development. The third stage of the exhibition follows Luciano Floridi proposing the displacement of the concept of information as a product of actions developed in the previous stage, towards the central category role that constitutes the composition and understanding of the world itself shared by actions, entities, events and processes. A fourth and final stage of this reflection seeks to glimpse the deus ex maquina in Floridi's informational vision, revealing a process ontology as the ultimate substrate, where the concept of information must emerge as an attempt to differentiate or continue the processes that make up reality.
References
BAR-HILLEL, Y. An examination of information theory. In: Philosophy of Science, v.22, 1955, pp. 86–105.
BRANDOM. Between Saying and Doing: Towards an Analytic Pragmatism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
BRANDOM. Making it Explicit: Reasoning, Representing and Discursive Commitment. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998.
BURGIN, Mark. Theory of Information: Fundamentality, Diversity and Unification. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Company, 2010.
CHAITIN, Gregory J. Algorithmic Information Theory [3rded]. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
CHAITIN, Gregory J. From Philosophy to Program Size, Key Ideas and Methods: Lecture Notes on Algorithmic Information Theory. Tallinn: Institute of Cibernetics: 2003.
COVER, T. M.; THOMAS, J. A. Elements of Information Theory. New Jersey: Wiley-Interscience, 2006.
CUMMINS, R. Meaning and Mental Representation. Bradford Books, 1991.
DOUSA, T. M.; IBEKWE-SANJUAN, F. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science: Theories of Information, Communication and Knowledge. A Multidisciplinary Approach. New York: Springer, 2014.
DRETSKE, F. Knowledge and the Flow of Information. Stanford: CSLI Publications, 1999.
FLORIDI, L. The Method of Levels of Abstraction. In: Minds & Machines, v.18, 2008. pp. 303–329.
FLORIDI, L. The Philosophy of Information. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.
FLORIDI, L; ILLARI, P. (Eds.) The Philosophy of Information Quality. New York: Springer, 2014.
FLORIDI, L; SANDERS, W. Levellism and the Method of Abstraction In: GRECO, G. M. (Ed.). IEG Research Report. Oxford University – University of Bari: Information Ethics Group, 2004. Disponível em: http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/research/ areas/ieg. Acesso em: 20. Out. 2019.
GEACH, P. On What There Is. In: Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Suppl. Vol. XXV, 1951. pp. 125-136.
HINTIKKA, J. On Semantic Information. In: HINTIKKA, J.; SUPPES, P. Information and Inference. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1970a. pp. 3-27.
HECK, R. L. Informação a Partir de Regras: Considerações para a Solução do Escândalo da Dedução pela Semântica Inferencial Pragmática. Fortaleza. 146p. Tese (Doutorado em Filosofia). Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC), 2018.
KAISER, Ł. Logic and Games on Automatic Structures: Playing with Quantifiers and Decompositions. New York: Springer, 2011.
KOMOLGOROV, A. N. Logical Basis for Information Theory and Probability Theory. In: IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. Vol.14, n. 5, New Jersey: IEEE Information Theory Society, 1968. pp. 662-664.
KOMOLGOROV, A. N. Three approaches to the quantitative definition of information. In: International Journal of Computer Mathematics. Vol. 2, Philadelphia: Gordon and Breach Science Publishers, 1968, pp. 157-168.
LAMBALGEN, M. van. Algorithmic Information Theory. In: The Journal of Symbolic Logic, v. 54, n. 4, pp. 1389-1400.
LOSEE, R. M. A Discipline Independent Definition of Information. In: Journal of The American Society for Information Science. n. 48 v. 3, 1997, pp. 254-269.
MASLIN, K. T. Introdução à Filosofia da Mente. Porto Alegre: Artmed, 2009.
MOURELATOS, A. P. D. Events, Processes, and States. In: Linguistics and Philosophy, n. 2 v. 3, 1978. pp. 415–434.
OLIVEIRA, M. A. de. Ontologia em Debate no Pensamento Contemporâneo. São Paulo: Paulus, 2014.
OLIVEIRA, M. A. A Metafísica do Ser Primordial. São Paulo: Loyola, 2019.
RESCHER, N. Process Metaphysics: An Introduction. New York: SUNY, 1996.
RYLE, G. The Concept of Mind. New York: Barnes and Noble, 1949.
SAGÜILLO, J. M. Hintikka on Information and Deduction. In: Teorema. vol. XXXIII/2, Oviedo: Universidad de Oviedo, 2014. pp. 75-88.
SEIBT, J. Quanta, Tropes, or Processes: On Ontologies for QFT beyond the Myth of Substance. In: Meinard Kuhlmann, Holger Lyre and Andrew Wayne, (Eds.). Ontological Aspects of Quantum Field Theory. Singapore: World Scientific, 2002. pp. 53-93.
SEIBT, J. Ontologia de Processo. In: IMAGUIRE, G.; ALMEIDA C.L.S.de.; OLIVEIRA, M. A. de. (Orgs.). Metafísica Contemporânea. Petrópolis: Vozes, 2007.
SHANNON, C. E. Collected Papers. Sloane, N. J. A.; Wyner, A. D. (Eds.) New York: IEEE Press, 1993.
SOMMARUGA, G. (Ed.) Formal Theories of Information: From Shannon to Semantic Information Theory and General Concepts of Information. Berlin: Springer, 2009.
STONIER, T. Beyond information: The natural history of intelligence. Berlin: Springer, 1992.
WHITEHEAD, A. Process and Reality, New York: Macmillan, 1929.
WITTGENSTEIN, L. Philosophical Investigations [1953]. 4ª ed. Oxford: Blackwell, 2009.
Downloads
Published
Issue
Section
License
Argumentos magazine is licensed under an International Creative Commons Attribution License.
The Magazine uses CC BY inclusion
1) The authors retain the copyright granted to the magazine or the right to initial publication, with the work regularly licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution, which allows the sharing of the work with acknowledgment of authorship and initial publication in this magazine.
2) The authors are authorized to contract additional applicable contracts, for non-exclusive distribution of the version of the work published in this journal (for example, publication in the institutional repository or as a chapter of the book), recognition of authorship and initial publication in this journal.
3) Authors are authorized and encourage to publish and distribute their work online (for example, in institutional repositories or on their personal pages) at any time before or during the editorial process, as they can generate productive changes, as well as increase the impact and reference of published work.
.jpg)
._._3.png)
1.jpg)
._._._.png)
