What Is Information? Janich PeterPaperback
What Is Information? Janich PeterPaperback A novel way of looking at information challenges longstanding dogmas--from a preeminent German thinkerIt is widely agreed that we live in an "information…
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What Is Information? Janich PeterPaperback
A novel way of looking at information challenges longstanding dogmas--from a preeminent German thinkerIt is widely agreed that we live in an "information age," but what exactly is information? His novel critique of this widespread dogma grounds science in human life practices and wrestles with the very fundamentals of the scientific way of understanding reality.Offering new perspectives on the major contemporary This small, seemingly facile question is in fact surprisingly difficult, and it has occupied many of the best philosophical minds of the modern age.In this wholly original addition to the quest to understand information, German philosopher Peter Janich argues that our understanding of information is based in the much broader history of scientific naturalism--the belief that science is a fundamental aspect of the world and not a human contrivance.