Natural Information

9.05  Welcome    (Conference Room 2, University Office)

9.10 – 10.10  Karen Neander:  Informing the Mind

10.10 – 11.10  Andrea Scarantino: A Probabilistic Theory of Information

COFFEE

11.30 – 12.30  Aaron Meskin:  Three Conceptions of Semantic Information

LUNCH

13.30 – 14.30   Nicholas Shea: Content in Simple Sender-Receiver Models of Communication  (per video link, RG17)

SHORT BREAK

14.45 – 15.50   Ruth Millikan: Natural Information and Root Signs (per video link, RG17)

COFFEE

16.30 – 17.30   Hilmi Demir: Dichotomy or Continuum: Natural Meaning vs. Non-natural Meaning

17.30 – 18.00   Ulrich Stegmann: Three Comments on Probabilistic Information


Attendance is free, but registration required via email to [email protected]. Lunch is provided for speakers only. The workshop is held in Conference Room 2, University Office. The talks via video link are in the Regents Building, room G17.

The workshop is supported by the Centre for the History and Philosophy of Science, Technology, and Medicine, the British Society for the Philosophy of Science, the Scots Philosophical Association, and the Mind Association. Their contributions are gratefully acknowledged.