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Deflating the deflationary view of information

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EUROPEAN JOURNAL FOR PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
Volume 6, Issue 2, Pages 209-230

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SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s13194-015-0128-7

Keywords

Information; Shannon; Deflationary interpretation; Epistemic interpretation; Physical interpretation

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  1. Large Grant of the Foundational Questions Institute (FQXi)
  2. National Council of Scientific and Technological Research (CONICET) of Argentina

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Christopher Timpson 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 this proposal, which will lead us to conclude that information is an item even more abstract than what Timpson claims. From this view, we embrace a pluralist stance that recognizes the legitimacy of different interpretations of the concept of information.

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