In Search of a Simple Introduction to Communication
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| Summary: | X, 216 p. text |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
2016.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2016. |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25625-2 |
| Format: | Electronic Book |
Table of Contents:
- Part I: Getting Acquainted
- Chapter 1 Who Am I? Where Do I Come From? Where Am I Headed?.-Chapter 2 Who Are You? Why Are You Here? Can I Help You Achieve Your Goals?
- Chapter 3 Appendix from the Classroom: Toward a Useful Introduction to Communication
- Chapter 4 On Questions of the Form “What is X?”, and on the Seemingly Innocent Question “What is Communication?” in Particular
- Part II: Toward a Philosophy of Communication
- Chapter 5 Emergence and Reduction
- Chapter 6 The Fundamental Problem of the Study of Communication
- Chapter 7 Is There Communication in the Reduced World?
- Chapter 8 The Unbelievable Complexity of the Truly Simple
- Chapter 9 Information in Context
- Chapter 10 The Reductionist Point of View – Extensionalism
- Chapter 11 A Note on the Intelligence of Computers
- Chapter 12 Revisiting Context and Meaning: Claude Shannon’s Mathematical Theory of Communication
- Chapter 13 On Errors, On Correcting Them, and Thus On Goals (With and Without Scare Quotes): Cybernetics and Reductionism
- Chapter 14 Back to the Basic Problem of Communication: The Limitations of Cybernetics
- Chapter 15 Toward a Philosophy of Communication
- Part III: Toward the Simple Introduction to Communication
- Chapter 16 The Simple Introduction to Communication: A Methodological Preface
- Chapter 17 Example #1: The Classroom
- Chapter 18 Example #2: Stigmergy and Autonomy in the Cyber-age.