Elective:PhilosophyOfInformation.tex

Philosophy of Information

Information is now a vitally important scientific concept, while changes in information and communication technologies have rapidly altered our personal and working lives. In this course, philosophy is interpreted as the conceptual design of cogent and relevant answers to open questions of a foundational nature. It introduces some key concepts and phenomena related to information. And it seeks to answer some crucial theoretical questions of great philosophical significance prompted by the development of the information society.