Units: 4
Hours: Lecture, 3 hours; extra reading, 3 hours
Catalog page 536
Prerequisites: PHIL 124; PHIL 132 or PHIL 135 or PHIL 136 or PHIL 137; restricted to class level standing of junior, or senior
Description: Examines key issues in the philosophy of information. Includes theories of semantic and naturalistic information, informational ontologies, and the intersections of logic, computation, and cognition. Topics include informational pluralism, structural realism, digital ontology, semantic content, and the use of information in cognitive science and the biological sciences.