Martínez, Manolo (2018) Representations are Rate-Distortion Sweet Spots. In: UNSPECIFIED.

Preview

Text paper_psa.pdf Download (352kB) | Preview

Abstract

Information is widely perceived as essential to the study of
communication and representation; still, theorists working on these topics often take themselves not to be centrally concerned with "Shannon information", as it is often put, but with some other, sometimes called "semantic" or "nonnatural",kind of information. This perception is wrong. Shannon's theory of information is the only one we need.

I intend to make good on this last assertion by canvassing a fully (Shannon) informational answer to the metasemantic question of what makes something a representation, for a certain important family of cases. This answer and the
accompanying theory, which represents a significant departure from the broadly Dretskean philosophical mainstream, will show how a number of threads in the
literature on naturalistic metasemantics, aimed at describing the purportedly non-informational ingredients in representation, actually belong in the same coherent, purely information-theoretic picture.

---

Export/Citation:

EndNote | BibTeX | Dublin Core | ASCII/Text Citation (Chicago) | HTML Citation | OpenURL

Social Networking:

Share |

---

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (UNSPECIFIED)
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Martínez, Manolo mail@manolomartinez.net 0000-0002-6194-7121
Keywords:	Information theory Representation Shannon Dretske Rate-Distortion theory
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science Specific Sciences > Computation/Information
Depositing User:	Dr. Manolo Martínez
Date Deposited:	25 Mar 2019 15:48
Last Modified:	25 Mar 2019 15:48
Item ID:	15850
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science Specific Sciences > Computation/Information
Date:	2018
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/15850

Available Versions of this Item

• Representations are Rate-Distortion Sweet Spots. (deposited 15 Jul 2018 23:06)
  • Representations are Rate-Distortion Sweet Spots. (deposited 22 Jul 2018 15:38)
    • Representations are Rate-Distortion Sweet Spots. (deposited 25 Mar 2019 15:48) [Currently Displayed]

Monthly Views for the past 3 years

Monthly Downloads for the past 3 years

Plum Analytics

Actions (login required)

View Item