Part 1: Information before 500 CE: Natures -- Yinyang information: Order, know-how and a relation based paradigm / Robin R. Wang -- Plato on the act of informing: Speaking meaningfully and education / Tamsin de Waal -- On information in Aristotle: Nature, perception, knowledge / Miira Tuominen -- Information and history of psychiatry: The case of the disease phrenitis / Chiara Thumiger -- Part 2: Information 500-1500: Access -- Vācaspati on aboutness and decomposition / Nilanjan Das -- Seeing and recognition in the Arabian Nights and Islamic Alexander legends / Anna Ayse Akasoy -- Avicenna on information processing and abstraction / Luis Xavier López-Farjeat -- Thomas Aquinas on cognition as information / Cecilia Trifogli -- Part 3: Information 1500-1800: Control -- Leibniz as a precursor to Chaitin's Algorithmic Information Theory / Richard T. W. Arthur -- Information visualisation in the Philosophical Transactions / Chris Meyns -- 'Dwindled into Confusion and Nonsense': Information in a copyright perspective from the Statute of Anne to Google Books / Stina Teilmann-Lock -- Information in the pursuit of social reform / Lynn McDonald -- Part 4: Information in the nineteenth century: (Dangerous) systems -- The nineteenth-century information revolution and world peace / Edward Beasley -- Charles Babbage's economy of knowledge / Renee Prendergast -- Mendel on developmental information / Yafeng Shan -- Information and eugenics: Francis Galton / Debbie Challis and Subhadra Das -- Part 5: Information after 1900: Insurgencies -- The racialization of information: W.E.B. Du Bois, early intersectionality, and social information / Reiland Rabaka -- The many faces of Shannon information / Olimpia Lombardi and Cristian López -- Computers and system(s) science-the kingpins of modern technology: Lotfi Zadeh's glimpses into the future of the information revolution / Rudolf Seising.

"In recent years the philosophy of information and information usage has emerged as an important area of research in philosophy. However, until now its philosophical history has been largely overlooked. Information and the History of Philosophy is the first comprehensive investigation of the history of philosophical questions around information, from the classical period to the twenty-first century. It covers scientific and machine-centred notions of information, as well as human-centred theories of information encompassing human knowledge and consciousness, as well as socio-political topics such as the control of information, censorship and propaganda. Organised into five clear parts, nineteen chapters by an international team of contributors cover the following topics and more: information and classical philosophy, including ancient Greek and Chinese theories of information early theories of information processing, cryptography and visions as a source of information information and modern philosophy: Leibniz; probabilistic information and Condorcet . The nineteenth century, including genetic information; Lovelace, Babbage and information machines; and information and eugenics contemporary philosophy of information, including Shannon information, Turing machines, consciousness and quantified selves. Information and the History of Philosophy is a landmark publication in this emerging field. As such, it is essential reading for students and researchers in the history of philosophy, philosophy of science and technology, and library and information studies. It is also a valuable resource for those working in subjects such as the history of science, media and communication studies, and intellectual history"-- Provided by publisher.

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