Lombardi, Olimpia and Fortin, Sebastian and López, Cristian (2014) Deflating the deflationary view of information. [Preprint]

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Abstract

In the field of the philosophy of physics, Christopher Timpson has published several works where he accurately designs an interpretation of the technical concept of information. In particular, he proposes a deflationary view about information, according to which the term ‘information’ is an abstract noun and, as a consequence, information is not part of the material contents of the world. The main purpose of the present article consists in supplying a critical analysis of Timpson’s proposal. Moreover we propose a strategy opposed to that of Timpson: instead of deflating the meaning of ‘information’, we embrace a pluralist stance, which recognizes the legitimacy of different interpretations of the concept of information, not mutually exclusive and each useful in a specific context.

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Item Type:	Preprint
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Lombardi, Olimpia olimpiafilo@arnet.com.ar Fortin, Sebastian sfortin@gmx.net López, Cristian lopez.cristian1987@gmail.com
Keywords:	Information, abstact noun, physical interpretation of information, pluralist view of information
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Computation/Information > Classical Specific Sciences > Physics
Depositing User:	Prof. Olimpia Lombardi
Date Deposited:	29 Jul 2014 16:10
Last Modified:	29 Jul 2014 16:10
Item ID:	10910
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Computation/Information > Classical Specific Sciences > Physics
Date:	28 July 2014
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/10910

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