The author, Kun Wu's name, affiliation and biography have been incorrectly published in the origi... more The author, Kun Wu's name, affiliation and biography have been incorrectly published in the original article. The correct affiliation and biography are provided below. Kun Wu was born in 1953 in the People's Republic of China. He is at present Professor, Doctoral Advisor and Director of The International Center for the Philosophy of Science of the Xi'an Jiaotong University College of Humanities and Social Sciences, as well as member of the Chinese State Council of Experts. In l980, Professor Kun Wu started his development of the field of the philosophy of information. Since then, he has published 13 monographs, two translations, written or edited four textbooks and published more than 330 academic papers. Wu's main academic contribution takes the concept of information as a the basic category of philosophy, establishing a philosophy of information which includes information ontology, information epistemology, social information theory, information theory of evolution, information value theory and information theory of thinking. The originality of this research is its discussion of modern philosophical problems in systems science, natural philosophy, value philosophy, the information and knowledge economy, information science, entropy theory, complexity theory and some other broad philosophical, economic and scientific areas. He has also applied information science and philosophy as well as the methods of complexity theory to ancient theories of philosophy, for example from Greece, China and India. His founding of a theory of the philosophy of information attracted wide attention in China: two of his research publications, "The summary of the philosophy of information" ("The Journal of humanities," 1985, 1) as well as "Introduction to the Philosophy of information" (Shanxi People's Publishing House, 1987) have been seen in China as the foundation of the philosophy of information. Wu's major 2005 book, Philosophy of Information -Theory, System and Method, is demonstration of the maturity and scope of his philosophy of information for which he has been praised as "the pioneer of the philosophy of information" and "philosophy of information in the first person.
This article is an attempt to capture, in a reasonable space, some of the major developments and ... more This article is an attempt to capture, in a reasonable space, some of the major developments and currents of thought in information theory and the relations between them. I have particularly tried to include changes in the views of key authors in the field. The domains addressed range from mathematical-categorial, philosophical and computational approaches to systems, causal-compositional, biological and religious approaches and messaging theory. I have related key concepts in each domain to my non-standard extension of logic to real processes that I call Logic in Reality (LIR). The result is not another attempt at a General Theory of Information such as that of Burgin, or a Unified Theory of Information like that of Hofkirchner. It is not a compendium of papers presented at a conference, more or less unified around a particular theme. It is rather a highly personal, limited synthesis which nonetheless may facilitate comparison of insights, including contradictory ones, from different lines of inquiry. As such, it may be an example of the concept proposed by Marijuan, still little developed, of the recombination of knowledge. Like the best of the work to which it refers, the finality of this synthesis is the possible contribution that an improved understanding of the nature and dynamics of information may make to the ethical development of the information society.
Th e philosophy of Rafael Capurro is analyzed using the extension of logic to reality made by the... more Th e philosophy of Rafael Capurro is analyzed using the extension of logic to reality made by the Franco-Romanian thinker Stéphane Lupasco (Bucharest, 1900-Paris, 1988). From this dynamic logical perspective, Capurro's critical Heideggerian concepts of human existence can be naturalized, that is, brought into a non-reductionist relation to science. Lupasco's ontological approach to nature and ethics supports the information theory and information ethics developed by Capurro. Both can be seen as part of the current convergence of science and philosophy which is directed toward a revitalization of the concepts of the commons and of the common good .
This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative... more This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY
International Journal "INFORMATION THEORIES & APPLICATIONS" (IJ ITA) is official publisher of the... more International Journal "INFORMATION THEORIES & APPLICATIONS" (IJ ITA) is official publisher of the scientific papers of the members of the ITHEA International Scientific Society IJ ITA welcomes scientific papers connected with any information theory or its application. IJ ITA rules for preparing the manuscripts are compulsory. The rules for the papers for IJ ITA as well as the subscription fees are given on www.foibg.com/ijita.
The 2nd International Conference on the Philosophy of Information (ICPI 2015) took place in Vienn... more The 2nd International Conference on the Philosophy of Information (ICPI 2015) took place in Vienna June 5-6, 2015 as a major Section of the Vienna 2015 Summit Conference on the Response and Responsibility of the Information Sciences. At the ICPI, Wu Kun and others presented evidence for a current integration and convergence of the philosophy and science of information, under the influence of the unique characteristics of information itself. As I have shown, my extension of logic to real systems (Logic in Reality; LIR) applies to and explicates many of the properties of information processes. In this paper, I apply LIR as a framework for understanding the operation of information in three areas of science and philosophy that were discussed at the Summit. The utility of this approach in support of an information commons is suggested the abstract section.
The work of Luciano Floridi lies at the interface of philosophy, information science and technolo... more The work of Luciano Floridi lies at the interface of philosophy, information science and technology, and ethics, an intersection whose existence and significance he was one of the first to establish. His closely related concepts of a philosophy of information (PI), informational structural realism, information logic (IL), and information ethics (IE) provide a new ontological perspective from which moral concerns
Triplec Communication Capitalism Critique Open Access Journal For a Global Sustainable Information Society, Nov 6, 2011
Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have changed our lives significantly over the l... more Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have changed our lives significantly over the last few decades, and they will continue to do so. ICTs influence the way we live, work, and organize. These changes we are facing as societies (and as individuals) bear positive and negative side effects that concern academia as well, since science and research serve a function in and for society. What kind of academic field do we need to meet these challenges of the information age?
The recent history of information theory and science shows a trend in emphasis from quantitative ... more The recent history of information theory and science shows a trend in emphasis from quantitative measures to qualitative characterizations. In parallel, aspects of information are being developed, for example by Pedro Marijuan, Wolf-gang Hofkirchner and others that are extending the notion of qualitative, non-computational information in the biological and cognitive domain to include meaning and function. However, there is as yet no consensus on whether a single acceptable definition or theory of the concept of information is possible, leading to many attempts to view it as a complex, a notion with varied meanings or a group of different entities. In my opinion, the difficulties in developing a Unified Theory of Information (UTI) that would include its qualitative and quantita-tive aspects and their relation to meaning are a consequence of implicit or explicit reliance on the principles of standard, truth-functional bivalent or multivalent logics. In reality, information processes, ...
The philosophical logic developed by the Franco-Romanian thinker Stéphane Lupasco (Bucharest, 190... more The philosophical logic developed by the Franco-Romanian thinker Stéphane Lupasco (Bucharest, 1900 – Paris, 1988) includes a systems approach to epistemology that complements independent work of von Bertalanffy and other general systems theorists. Basing his theory primarily on quantum mechanics, Lupasco proposed that the fundamental dualistic antagonism present in energy and accordingly in all phenomena could be formalized as a logic of an included middle with a semantics based on 'reality values' in place of truth values. This extension of logic provides a basis for the origin of systems in energy, and a metaphysics of knowledge considered as systems of real processes that follow the same dynamics of opposition. Applications to the epistemological problems of knowledge of knowledge and the infinite regress are suggested. Résumé : La logique philosophique du chercheur franco-roumain Stéphane Lupasco (Bucarest, 1900 – Paris, 1988) comporte une approche systémique à l'épi...
Standard bivalent propositional and predicate logics are described as the theory of correct reaso... more Standard bivalent propositional and predicate logics are described as the theory of correct reasoning. However, the concept of model-based reasoning (MBR) developed by Magnani and Nersessian rejects the limitations of implicit or explicit dependence on abstract propositional, truth-functional logics or their modal variants. In support of this advance toward a coherent framework for reasoning, my paper suggests that complex reasoning
Structure of the Anhydrobromonitrocamphanes
Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1957
... Both anhydro compounds yield the same tetrahydro iso-mer, which is no longer epimerizable at ... more ... Both anhydro compounds yield the same tetrahydro iso-mer, which is no longer epimerizable at C-2; since the hydrogenation conditions used are not likely to effect inversion at some intermediary stage,23 oxy-gen attachment is exo (XXX) in anhydro-11, as in -1. Corollarially ...
Levels of Abstraction; Levels of Reality
Philosophy of Engineering and Technology, 2012
Stéphane Lupasco : vers la fin d'une noble marginalité
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