Muenchenwiler Seminar: Formal Theories of Information 2009

Giovanni Sommaruga (Ed.): Formal Theories of Information: From Shannon to Semantic Information Theory and General Concepts of Information [Muenchenwiler Seminar (Switzerland), May 2009]. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5363 Springer 2009, ISBN 978-3-642-00658-6

Giovanni Sommaruga:
Introduction. 1-12

Philosophical Reflections

Luciano Floridi:
Philosophical Conceptions of Information. 13-53

The Syntactical Approach

François Bavaud:
Information Theory, Relative Entropy and Statistics. 54-78
Cristian S. Calude:
Information: The Algorithmic Paradigm. 79-94

The Semantical Approach

Jürg Kohlas, Cesar Schneuwly:
Information Algebra. 95-127
Jürg Kohlas, Christian Eichenberger:
Uncertain Information. 128-160
Robert van Rooij:
Comparing Questions and Answers: A Bit of Logic, a Bit of Language, and Some Bits of Information. 161-192
Jeremy Seligman:
Channels: From Logic to Probability. 193-233

Beyond the Semantical Approach

Keith Devlin:
Modeling Real Reasoning. 234-252

Philosophical Conclusions

Giovanni Sommaruga:
One or Many Concepts of Information? 253-267