The rise of philosophy of information in China

Wu, Tianqi

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“…Wu Kun published more than 330 papers on the Philosophy of Information and related areas in Chinese, plus several books and a 14-volume monograph. A small fraction of this work began to be available in English only in 2010 in a monograph presented at an International Conference on the Foundations of Information Science in Xi'An ("The Basic Theory of the Philosophy of Information" (BTPI) [14]).…”

Section: The Philosophy Of Informationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The Metaphilosophy of Information requires attention to the informational aspects of complex processes as a methodological necessity, in a process that Wu calls Informational Thinking. Informational Thinking (IT), as conceived of by Wu [14], refers to a way of grasping and describing the essential characteristics and attributes of things by reference to the structure and dynamics of the information involved in their evolution, from their historical origins to future possibilities and probabilities. However, as noted, the doctrine of Wu, unlike that of Husserl, does not have to be "naturalized", that is, brought into the domain of natural science.…”

Section: Transdisciplinarity and Informational Thinkingmentioning

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“…As shown by Wu [14], forms of human civilization can be differentiated according to their different ways of creating, processing, dissemination and development of information. Only human beings can create information.…”

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Brenner¹

2015

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“…This period has also seen the development of the philosophy of process, extensions of the work of Whitehead [4], Rescher [5], and Seibt [6]. Another current field of research is that of the philosophy of information, pioneered by Wu Kun in China [7] and Luciano Floridi in Italy [8].…”

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The Naturalization of Natural Philosophy

Brenner

2018

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A new demarcation is proposed between Natural Philosophy and non-Natural Philosophy—philosophy tout court—based on whether or not they follow a non-standard logic of real processes. This non-propositional logic, Logic in Reality (LIR), is based on the original work of the Franco-Romanian thinker Stéphane Lupasco (Bucharest, 1900–Paris, 1988). Many Natural Philosophies remain bounded by dependence on binary linguistic concepts of logic. I claim that LIR can naturalize—bring into science—part of such philosophies. Against the potential objection that my approach blurs the distinction between science and philosophy, I reply that there is no problem in differentiating experimental physical science and philosophy; any complete distinction between philosophy, including the philosophy of science(s) and the other sciences is invidious. It was historically unnecessary and is unnecessary today. The convergence of science and philosophy, proposed by Wu Kun based on implications of the philosophy of information, supports this position. LIR provides a rigorous basis for giving equivalent ontological value to diversity and identity, what is contradictory, inconsistent, absent, missing or past, unconscious, incomplete, and fuzzy as to their positive counterparts. The naturalized Natural Philosophy resulting from the application of these principles is a candidate for the ‘new synthesis’ called for by the editors.

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“…Prior research on the ontology of information has looked at information only from the point of view of its (simple) existence. The new concept of ontology to be OPEN ACCESS presented here, of information as an evolving process, has been developed in a series of papers published in Chinese in the period 1981-2012, and available in part in English only since the Conference on the Foundations of Information Science that took place in Beijing in 2010 [1]. It is worth mentioning that in 2011, two presentations and an evaluation of the results of my studies of the philosophy of information were published in English: J.E.…”

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The Essence, Classification and Quality of the Different Grades of Information

2012

Information

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I define information from a philosophical perspective as a category that indicates the presence of indirect existence, which is a self-display by material entities (with direct existence) of the status and trajectory of that existence. In this paper, based in part on articles published only in Chinese over the last 30 years, information is shown to include three basic forms: In-itself, for-itself and regenerated information, which is constituted by the first two. Information in these three basic forms establishes the essence of information which is further developed in a fourth form—social information. Information is further characterized by the qualities of its three different grades, corresponding to these forms: The quality of first-grade information demonstrates direct objective existence and indirect objective existence; the quality of second-grade information demonstrates multiple levels of direct objective and indirect objective existence; the quality of third-grade information is that of the subjective relationships in human understanding that are encoded as information. The grounding of information in the ontological structure of the world gives it a central role in the approach to knowledge, constituting a new and necessary critique of the classical separation of the academic disciplines and the bases of modern philosophy

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The rise of philosophy of information in China

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