Spahn information theory (Rev #2)

Overview

There are many theories explicating specific features of the naive or intuitive notion of information.

The academic sites of these theories range over philosophy, mathematics (type theory, measure theory / probability theory / statistics), computer science, physics, communication sciences, psychology / sociology, economics, semiotics, cybernetics, etc.

Related topics

• coding theory?

• computational complexity theory?

• infon?

• meaning

• knowledge

• structure?

Contributors to information theory

• Statistical information theory: Claude Shannon, Warren Weaver, Ronald Fisher

• Semantic information theory: Yehoshua Bar-Hillel, Rudolf Carnap

• Algorithmic information theory: Ray Solomonoff, Andrey Kolmogorov, Gregory Chaitin

• Constructive-type-theoretical information theory:

• Fred Dretske

• Keith Devlin

• Jon Barwise

• Jeremy Seligman

• Jaakko Hintikka

References

• Giuseppe Primiero, information and knowledge - a constructive type-theoretical approach, Springer, 2008

• Mark Burgin, Theory of information, 2010