[學術討論會] 周理乾教授新書分享：Information in a physical world: How the meaningless becomes the meaningful?

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主講人：周理乾教授

        上海交通大學哲學系副教授

主  題：新書分享：Information in a physical world: How the meaningless becomes the meaningful?

時  間：114年11月17日（週一）

          下午15:30 – 17:30

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連結網址：https://tinyurl.com/36dzsu5d

新書資訊：https://www.routledge.com/Information-in-a-Physical-World-How-the-Meaningless-Becomes-the-Meaningful/Zhou/p/book/9781041097259

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摘要：

To naturalize intentionality is to explain the source of its normativity in naturalistic terms. A representation is normative in that it can misrepresent and can refer to a distal cause rather than a proximate one. A dominant strategy for naturalizing intentionality has been to ground it in correlational information. Through their historical employment by organisms—producing effects that contributed to survival and reproduction in the past—such correlations acquired stabilized functions. This approach, often called informational teleosemantics. However, it faces numerous challenges. I propose an alternative framework based on emergent dynamics and Peircean biosemiotics. Within this framework, a representation is understood as an irreducibly triadic process: for something to function as a sign, it must be interpreted as representing something in some respect. Moreover, representations exist in hierarchically dependent types. This hierarchy of representation sheds light on many linguistic phenomena that have long resisted explanation within the philosophy of language.