Fifth Workshop on the Philosophy of Information
Programme
Central Committee Room, MacLaurin Building, University of Hertfordshire
Wednesday 27 March 2013
9:00 - 9:15 Welcome, Tea, Coffee
9:15 - 10:00 Sabina Leonelli (Exeter), Data integration and the management
of information in contemporary biology
10:00 - 10:30 Federica Russo (Brussels and Kent), Phyllis Illari
(Hertfordshire and UCL) Information channels and biomarkers of disease
10:30 - 10:45 Coffee Break
10:45 - 11:15 Omri Tal (LSE and Tel Aviv), From Shannon information to a
new sense of genetic information
11:15 - 11:45 Stephen Rainey (Saint Mary’s University College), The method
of levels of abstraction in pluralism and governance of dialogical
interaction
11:45 - 12:15 Christoph Schulz (Hertfordshire), The informational strategy
of naturalising agency
12:15 - 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30 - 14:00 Federico Gobbo* (L’Aquila), Marco Benini (Leeds), What can we
know of computational inforgs?
14:00 - 14:30 David Gamez (Sussex), Are information or data patterns
correlated with consciousness?
14:30 - 15:00 Giuseppe Primiero (Ghent) Distrust and mistrust relations for
privatively and modally qualified information channels
15:00 - 15:15 Coffee Break
15:15 - 15:45 Mariarosaria Taddeo (Warwick), Individual rights in the
information age
15:45 - 16:15 David J. Pym (Aberdeen), Towards a philosophy of information
security
16:15 - 16:45 Ignacio Hernández Antón (Sevilla), A scenario where
quantitative and qualitative approaches to information modelling converge
16:45 - 17:15 Tea Break
17:15 - 17:45 Hamami Yacin (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), When is deduction
informative in mathematics?
17:45 - 18:15 Francesco Berto (Aberdeen) and Jacopo Tagliabue* ((San
Raffaele) Either the world is digital or not
18:15 - 19:00 Discussion of the ebook project: A Very Simple
Introduction to the Philosophy of Information
http://www.socphilinfo.org/teaching/book-pi-
intro
20:00 **Workshop Drinks & Dinner **
Thursday 28 March 2013
9:00 - 9:15 Welcome, Tea, Coffee
9:15 - 10:00 John Symons (Kansas), …and no surprises please:
physicalism, information loss, and emergence
10:00 - 10:30 Nir Fresco* (New South Wales), Aditya Ghose (Wollongong ),
Patrick McGivern (Wollongong), Types of information processed by cognitive
agents
10:30 - 10:45 Coffee Break
10:45 - 11:15 George M. Coghill (Aberdeen), On model-based systems and
qualitative reasoning with reference to the philosophy of information
11:15 - 11:45 Orlin Vakarelov (Duke University), Information qualities – a
structural perspective
11:45 - 12:15 Robert Piotrowski (Zielona Góra), Dimensionality of
information?
12:15 - 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30 - 14:00 Federico Gobbo (L’Aquila), Marco Benini* (Leeds), Measuring
computational complexity: the qualitative and quantitative intertwining of
algorithm comparison
14:00 - 14:30 Andrew Iliadis (Purdue), What is Information artifact
ontology?
14:30 - 15:00 Luciano Floridi (Hertfordshire and Oxford), The synthetic
uninformative
15:00 - 16:00 Coffee Break & Meeting of the Society for the Philosophy of
Information