These are selected introductory readings on the concept and philosophy of information.

Reading List

Adriaans, P. (2020). Information. In E. N. Zalta (Ed.), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2020 ed.). https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2020/entries/information

Bates, M. J. (2005). Information and knowledge: An evolutionary framework for information science. Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 10(4), n4.

Bates, M. J. (2018). Information. In J. D. McDonald & M. Levine-Clark (Eds.), Encyclopedia of library and information sciences (4th ed., pp. 2048-2063). CRC Press.

Buckland, M. (1991). Information as thing. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 42(5), 351-360. https://doi.org/10.1002/(sici)1097-4571(199106)42:5<351::Aid-asi5>3.0.Co;2-3

Capurro, R., & Hjørland, B. (2005). The concept of information. Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, 37(1), 343-411. https://doi.org/10.1002/aris.1440370109

Floridi, L. (2002). What is the Philosophy of Information? Metaphilosophy, 33(1‐2), 123-145. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9973.00221

Floridi, L. (2003). Informational realism Conference on Computers and philosophy, Canberra, Australia.

Floridi, L. (2010). Information: A very short introduction. Oxford University Press.

Furner, J. (2014). Information Without Information Studies. In F. Ibekwe-SanJuan & T. M. Dousa (Eds.), Theories of Information, Communication and Knowledge: A Multidisciplinary Approach (pp. 143-179). Springer Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6973-1_7

Gleick, J. (2011). The information: A history, a theory, a flood. Vintage.

McKinney, E. H., & Yoos, C. J. (2019). Information as a difference: toward a subjective theory of information. European Journal of Information Systems, 28(4), 355-369. https://doi.org/10.1080/0960085x.2019.1581441

Mingers, J., & Standing, C. (2018). What is Information? Toward a Theory of Information as Objective and Veridical. Journal of Information Technology, 33(2), 85-104. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41265-017-0038-6

Sequoiah-Grayson, S., & Floridi, L. (2022). Semantic Conceptions of Information. In E. N. Zalta (Ed.), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2022 ed.). https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2022/entries/information-semantic

Shannon, C. E. (1948). A mathematical theory of communication. The Bell system technical journal, 27(3), 379-423.