No communication without manipulation: A causal-deflationary view of information
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Title
No communication without manipulation: A causal-deflationary view of information
Journal
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A
ISSN
0039-3681
Publication state
Published
Issued date
02/2019
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
73
Pages
34-43
Language
english
Abstract
In this paper, we shall describe a new account of information in communicational contexts, namely, a causal-deflationary one. Our approach draws from Timpson’s deflationary view and supplies the field of philosophy of information with new tools that will help to clarify the underlying structure of communication: information is an abstract entity that must be involved in a causal link in order to achieve communication. In light of our account, communication is not merely the existence of statistical correlations between source and receiver, as usually understood from a purely formal view. Instead, communication is an asymmetric phenomenon involving causal notions: the destination system must be able to be causally manipulated by intervening on the source for successful communication. In a nutshell, we shall support the following lemma: no communication without manipulation.
Keywords
Information, Communication, Causation, Manipulation
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Web of science
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