INVESTIGADORES
LÓPEZ Cristian Ariel
artículos
Título:
No communication without manipulation: A causal-deflationary view of information
Autor/es:
CRISTIAN LÓPEZ; OLIMPIA LOMBARDI
Revista:
STUDIES IN HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
Editorial:
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
Referencias:
Lugar: Amsterdam; Año: 2019 p. 34 - 43
ISSN:
0039-3681
Resumen:
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.