Information and the history of philosophy / edited by Chris Meyns.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Meyns, Chris, editor.

Series:

Routledge handbooks

Rewriting the history of philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Information science--Philosophy--History.

Information science.

Information science--Philosophy.

History.

Genre:

Electronic books.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Chris Meyns is a poet, developer and architectural conservationist based in Uppsala, Sweden. They have published on the history of data, on Anton Wilhelm Amo's philosophy of mind, and their book The Philosophers' Library: Books that Shaped the World (with Adam Ferner) will appear in 2021. Their current research focuses on vulnerability in information sharing ecosystems.

Summary:

"In recent years the philosophy of information and information usage has emerged as an important area of research in philosophy. However, until now its philosophical history has been largely overlooked. Information and the History of Philosophy is the first comprehensive investigation of the history of philosophical questions around information, from the classical period to the twenty-first century. It covers scientific and machine-centred notions of information, as well as human-centred theories of information encompassing human knowledge and consciousness, as well as socio-political topics such as the control of information, censorship and propaganda. Organised into five clear parts, nineteen chapters by an international team of contributors cover the following topics and more: information and classical philosophy, including ancient Greek and Chinese theories of information early theories of information processing, cryptography and visions as a source of information information and modern philosophy: Leibniz; probabilistic information and Condorcet . The nineteenth century, including genetic information; Lovelace, Babbage and information machines; and information and eugenics contemporary philosophy of information, including Shannon information, Turing machines, consciousness and quantified selves. Information and the History of Philosophy is a landmark publication in this emerging field. As such, it is essential reading for students and researchers in the history of philosophy, philosophy of science and technology, and library and information studies. It is also a valuable resource for those working in subjects such as the history of science, media and communication studies, and intellectual history"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part 1: Information before 500 CE: Natures

Yinyang information: Order, know-how and a relation based paradigm / Robin R. Wang

Plato on the act of informing: Speaking meaningfully and education / Tamsin de Waal

On information in Aristotle: Nature, perception, knowledge / Miira Tuominen

Information and history of psychiatry: The case of the disease phrenitis / Chiara Thumiger

Part 2: Information 500-1500: Access

Vācaspati on aboutness and decomposition / Nilanjan Das

Seeing and recognition in the Arabian Nights and Islamic Alexander legends / Anna Ayse Akasoy

Avicenna on information processing and abstraction / Luis Xavier López-Farjeat

Thomas Aquinas on cognition as information / Cecilia Trifogli

Part 3: Information 1500-1800: Control

Leibniz as a precursor to Chaitin's Algorithmic Information Theory / Richard T. W. Arthur

Information visualisation in the Philosophical Transactions / Chris Meyns

'Dwindled into Confusion and Nonsense': Information in a copyright perspective from the Statute of Anne to Google Books / Stina Teilmann-Lock

Information in the pursuit of social reform / Lynn McDonald

Part 4: Information in the nineteenth century: (Dangerous) systems

The nineteenth-century information revolution and world peace / Edward Beasley

Charles Babbage's economy of knowledge / Renee Prendergast

Mendel on developmental information / Yafeng Shan

Information and eugenics: Francis Galton / Debbie Challis and Subhadra Das

Part 5: Information after 1900: Insurgencies

The racialization of information: W.E.B. Du Bois, early intersectionality, and social information / Reiland Rabaka

The many faces of Shannon information / Olimpia Lombardi and Cristian López

Computers and system(s) science-the kingpins of modern technology: Lotfi Zadeh's glimpses into the future of the information revolution / Rudolf Seising.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 27, 2021).

Other Format:

Print version: Information and the history of philosophy

ISBN:

9781351130752

1351130757

9781351130738

1351130730

9781351130721

1351130722

9781351130745

1351130749

OCLC:

1227789428

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