Bob Doyle

I call myself the Information Philosopher because I have developed a new method of solving problems in philosophy and physics, not by clever arguments with words, but by examining information structures in the universe, especially those that communicate with one another.

I earned a Ph.D in Astrophysics from Harvard in 1968 and am now an Associate in the Harvard Astronomy Department.

I have also been an entrepreneur, holding several patents and am the inventor of a number of the earliest computer games, including Parker Brothers Merlin (1978).

As a software developer for Apple, I wrote the first desktop publishing program, MacPublisher, 
in 1984 for the then new Macintosh computer.

I helped Christopher Lydon and Dave Winer create the very first Podcasts in 2003.

I've spent much of my life building tools to "help communities communicate." I try to "put the means of production in the hands of the people," not as Karl Marx imagined by nationalizing them, but by making them affordable, even free and "open source."

My goal for my books and informationphilosopher.com website is to provide web pages on all the major philosophers and scientists who have worked on the problems of freedom, value, and knowledge. Each page has excerpts from a thinker's work and a critical analysis. The original three major sections of the website each have a history of the problem, the relevant physics, biology, cosmology, etc, and pages on the core concepts of the problem. In recent years, sections have been added on the mind, chance, and the quantum.

I may have read more works of philosophers and scientists than any other modern thinker, and I have critically analyzed and written about the ideas of hundreds of thinkers on my I-Phi web pages. My own books are based on the pages of my website built over the last two decades.