A selection of papers from the Fourth Workshop on the Philosophy of Information edited by Patrick Allo and Luciano Floridi has been published in Minds and Machines, 24(3).

• “A Taxonomy of Errors for Information Systems”, Giuseppe Primiero
• “The Logic of Knowledge and the Flow of Information”, Simon D'Alfonso
• “From Interface to Correspondence: Recovering Classical Representations in a Pragmatic Theory of Semantic Information”, Orlin Vakarelov
• “Smooth Yet Discrete: Modeling Both Non-transitivity and the Smoothness of Graded Categories With Discrete Classification Rules”, Bert Baumgaertner

See also the announcement by the editor of the journal.

Festschrift for Jean Paul van Bendegem on the occasion of his 60th birthday

Patrick Allo and Bart van Kerkhove, eds

Commenting on scientific and cultural developments through various media in his native region Flanders, Jean Paul Van Bendegem (b. 1953) has been a relatively well known philosopher for many years now. Although the entirety of his work is based on the very same humanistic principles, his ventures in logic and in the philosophy of mathematics have received less attention in these public fora.

For this Festschrift at the age of sixty, some of Van Bendegems most important intellectual associates in these areas (colleagues and friends, often both), address topics that have been central to their intellectual exchanges with him. More often than not, these are connected in some way or another to Van Bendegems notoriously staunch finitism and focus on the human aspect of mathematics, the sciences, and indeed, even logic.

Published by College Publications

Special issue of Logique et Analyse. (overview)

Edited by Giuseppe Primiero and Patrick Allo.

Contributions

“Taking Stock: Arguments fro the Veridicality Thesis” (Hilmi Demir)

“Information versus Knowledge in Confirmation Theory” (Darrell P. Rowbottom)

“Perception and Testimony as Data Providers” (Luciano Floridi)

“Event Mappings for Comparing Formal Frameworks for Narratives” (Bernhard Fisseni and Benedikt Löwe)

Edited by Patrick Allo & Giuseppe Primiero.

Published by the Koninklijke Academie voor Wetenschappen Letteren en Schone Kunsten België.

Contributions

• Benedikt Löwe “Methodological remarks about comparing formal frameworks for narratives”
• Lorenz Demey “Narrative and Information: Comment on Benedikt Löwe”
• Darrell Rowbottom “Information versus Knowledge in Confirmation Theory”
• Erik Myin “Extended Information Processing”
• Francesca Poggiolesi “A Pragmatic Argument in Support of Analyticity”
• Giuseppe Primiero “On the necessity of (sometimes) being synthetic: Comment on Francesca Poggiolesi”
• Luciano Floridi “Perception and Testimony as Data Providers”
• Adriane Rini “Modal Notions: Perception and Testimony as Data Providers: Comment on Floridi”
• Liesbeth De Mol “Reasoning with computer-assisted experiments in mathematics”
• Bart Van Kerkhove “Comment on De Mol”

Link

Patrick Allo (editor), Putting Information First: Luciano Floridi and the Philosophy of Information, (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011).

Special issue of Metaphilosophy, Vol. 41, Issue 3.

Introduction

Link

Special Issue of Logique & Analyse (Volume 49, Issue 196) edited by Luciano Floridi & Patrick Allo

Contributions

• Allo Patrick: Local Information and Adaptive Consequence
• Floridi, Luciano: The Logic of ‘Being Informed’
• Frápolli, María J. and Francesc Camós: The Informational Content of Necessary Truths
• Jago, Mark: Imagine the Possibilities: Information without Overload
• Mares, Ed: Relevant Logic, Probabilistic Information, and Conditionals
• Sequoiah-Grayson, Sebastian: Information Flow and Impossible Situations