In Search of a Simple Introduction to Communication

Abstract

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Part IGetting Acquainted -- 1 Who Am I? Where Do I Come From? Where Am I Headed? -- 2 Who Are You? Why Are You Here? Can I Help You Achieve Your Goals? -- 3 Appendix from the Classroom: Toward a Useful Introduction to Communication -- Bibliography -- 4 On Questions of the Form ``What Is X?'', and on the Seemingly Innocent Question ``What Is Communication?'' in Particular -- Bibliography -- Part IIToward a Philosophy of Communication -- 5 Emergence and Reduction -- Bibliography -- 6 The Fundamental Problem of the Study of Communication -- Bibliography -- 7 Is There Communication in the Reduced World? -- Bibliography -- 8 The Unbelievable Complexity of the Truly Simple -- Bibliography -- 9 Information in Context -- Bibliography -- 10 The Reductionist Point of View---Extensionalism -- Bibliography -- 11 A Note on the Intelligence of Computers -- Bibliography -- 12 Revisiting Context and Meaning: Claude Shannon's Mathematical Theory of Communication -- Bibliography -- 13 On Errors, on Correcting Them, and Thus on Goals (with and Without Scare Quotes): Cybernetics and Reductionism -- Bibliography -- 14 Back to the Basic Problem of Communication: The Limitations of Cybernetics -- Bibliography -- 15 Toward a Philosophy of Communication -- Bibliography -- Part IIIToward the Simple Introduction toCommunication -- 16 The Simple Introduction to Communication: A Methodological Preface -- Bibliography -- 17 Example #1: The Classroom -- Bibliography -- 18 Example #2: Stigmergy and Autonomy in the Cyber Age -- Bibliography -- Name Index -- Subject Index.