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Models, information and meaning (2020)

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Volume: 82
Pages: 101284

DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsc.2020.101284

URI: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1369848618301389

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Philosophy of biology Meaning (philosophy) Communication Models and modeling in science Biology Linguistic or semantic analysis Signs and symbols

There has recently been an explosion of formal models of signaling, which have been developed in order to learn about different aspects of meaning. This paper discusses whether that success can also be used to provide an original naturalistic theory of meaning in terms of information or some related notion. In particular, it argues that, although these models can teach us a lot about different aspects of content, at the moment they fail to support the idea that meaning just is some kind of information. As an alternative, I suggest a more modest approach to the relationship between the informational notions used in models and semantic properties in the natural world.

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