## 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{#Primiero} * Mark Burgin, Theory of information, 2010{#Burgin}