Knowledge and the Flow of Information (The David Hume Series) - Softcover

Dretske, Fred I.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 157586195X ISBN 13: 9781575861951

Publisher: The Center for the Study of Language and Information Publications, 1999

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Review:

"The author of this book is a philosopher, and he has written primarily to and for other philosophers. This work, however, is of interest to contemporary cognitive psychologists because Dretske has attempted to extend the concept of information into types of information similar to what we would commonly call knowledge. Indeed, cognitive scientists who are more broadly concerned with the nature of knowledge and language comprehension will be interested in "Knowledge and the Flow of Information"."--Wendell R. Garner, "Contemporary Psychology"

Book Description:

This volume presents an attempt to develop a theory of knowledge using ideas derived from the mathematical theory of communication developed by Claude Shannon. Information is seen as an objective commodity defined by the dependency relations between distinct events. Knowledge is then analyzed as information caused belief.

About this edition

• Publisher: The Center for the Study of Language and Information Publications
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 157586195X
• ISBN 13: 9781575861951
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288