In Search of a Simple Introduction to Communication

Part I. Getting Acquainted

1. Who Am I? Where Do I Come From? Where Am I Headed?
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2. Who Are You? Why Are You Here? Can I Help You Achieve Your Goals?
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3. Appendix from the Classroom: Toward a Useful Introduction to Communication
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4. On Questions of the Form “What Is X?”, and on the Seemingly Innocent Question “What Is Communication?” in Particular
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Part II. Toward a Philosophy of Communication

5. Emergence and Reduction
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6. The Fundamental Problem of the Study of Communication
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7. Is There Communication in the Reduced World?
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8. The Unbelievable Complexity of the Truly Simple
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9. Information in Context
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10. The Reductionist Point of View—Extensionalism
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11. A Note on the Intelligence of Computers
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12. Revisiting Context and Meaning: Claude Shannon’s Mathematical Theory of Communication
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13. On Errors, on Correcting Them, and Thus on Goals (with and Without Scare Quotes): Cybernetics and Reductionism
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14. Back to the Basic Problem of Communication: The Limitations of Cybernetics
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15. Toward a Philosophy of Communication
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Part III. Toward the Simple Introduction to Communication

16. The Simple Introduction to Communication: A Methodological Preface
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17. Example #1: The Classroom
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18. Example #2: Stigmergy and Autonomy in the Cyber Age
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Keywords: Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of the Social Sciences