Mario Pérez-Montoro

Broschiertes Buch

Phenomenon of Information

A Conceptual Approach to Information Flow

Beschreibung

This study examines critically major theories of information and offers an original treatment of information flows that attempts to remedy weaknesses in earlier treatments and may serve as a basis on which a satisfactory analysis of the concept of information can be developed.

Autor

By Mario Pérez-Montoro - Translated by Dick Edelstein

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Scarecrow Press
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juni 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 423g
• ISBN-13: 9780810859425
• ISBN-10: 0810859424
• Artikelnr.: 22708012

Rezensionen

Perez-Montoro's highly detailed book provides a synthesis of today's key theoretical work in the field of information transmission and flow...this book provides a critically needed update in regard to theory and technology...Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. CHOICE Perez-Montor (information science, U. de Barcelona, Spain) endeavors to describe a theoretical definition of information flow that accounts for the necessary and sufficient conditions to conclude that a specific signal carries a particular informational content and also provides a description of the regularities or supporting information links that exemplify the property of reliability (and in some cases fallibility). He first analyzes the main ideas of the mathematical theory of communication, rejecting much but retaining its treatment of informational and communicational constraints. He then turns to philosopher Fred Dretske's analysis of the notion of information, again finding many deficiencies but arguing that the relational theory of meaning presented by philosophers Jon Barwise and John Perry resolves many of these problems, with the significant exception of the failure to satisfactorily explain the reliability and fallibility exhibited by the supporting regularities of information flow. This final deficiency is addressed by Perez-Montor's own "existential approach" to information flow. Scitech Book News