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Informational Semantics

Informational Semantics is a theoretical framework within the philosophy of mind and language that explains mental content by identifying the meaning of mental representations with the information they carry, where content is determined by reliable causal covariation between representational states and environmental conditions.

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2017–2026

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Informational Theory Of Content

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Info/information theory: Speakers choose shorter words in predictive contexts

Kyle Mahowald, Evelina Fedorenko, Steven T. Piantadosi et al. · Cognition · 2012 · 264 citations

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<b>Language and information</b> : Selected essays on their theory and application. By Yehoshua Bar-Hillel. (Adiwes international series: Addison-Wesley series in logic.) Pp. x, 388. Reading, Mass., Palo Alto, London: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc.; Jerusalem: Jerusalem Academic Press Ltd., 1964.

Punya Sloka Ray · Language · 1965 · 225 citations

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LOGIC, LANGUAGE GAMES, AND INFORMATION

STEPHEN READ · Philosophical Books · 1973 · 224 citations

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A defence of informational structural realism

Luciano Floridi · Synthese · 2007 · 189 citations

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Attributed intentions and informational selectivity

Jerry Zadny, Harold B. Gerard · Journal of Experimental Social Psychology · 1974 · 179 citations

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Authors

111

  1. LF
    Luciano Floridi

    University of Oxford, United Kingdom

    3 publications · 256 citations

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  2. FG
    Florin Gaiseanu

    University of Bucharest, Romania

    3 publications · 44 citations

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  3. MA
    Murat Aydede

    University of Chicago, United States

    3 publications · 112 citations

    3

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  4. PB
    Peter Bruza

    Queensland University of Technology, Australia

    2 publications · 82 citations

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  5. HA
    Henderik A. Proper

    Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands

    2 publications · 82 citations

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Institutions

75

  1. University of Oxford

    Oxford, United Kingdom

    6 h-index

    6 publications

    347 citations

  2. Stanford University

    Stanford, United States

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    250 citations

  3. University of Bologna

    Bologna, Italy

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    67 citations

  4. University of Chicago

    Chicago, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    36 citations

  5. The University of Queensland

    Brisbane, Australia

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    82 citations

  6. Internet Society

    Fredericksburg, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    67 citations

  7. Victoria University of Wellington

    Wellington, New Zealand

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    89 citations

  8. Queensland University of Technology

    Brisbane, Australia

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    82 citations

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  1. Synthese

    5 publications · 431 citations

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  2. Philosophy study

    3 publications · 44 citations

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  3. Journal of the American Society for Information Science

    JASIS · 3 publications · 120 citations

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  4. SSRN Electronic Journal

    Repository · 2 publications · 67 citations

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  5. Mind & Language

    2 publications · 36 citations

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