In Search of a Simple Introduction to Communication

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bar-Am, Nimrod (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Summary:X, 216 p.
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Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
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.