Information in a Physical World

The book develops a naturalistic perspective based on Peircean biosemiotics in order to construct a comprehensive theory of information, meaning and intentionality. It re-examines key issues such as referential information, the metaphysics of form, misrepresentation, reference and sense, offering new explanations and insights.

Liqian Zhou is an associate professor of philosophy at the Department of Philosophy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. His research interests include philosophy of information, philosophy of biology, philosophy of mind and cognition, and biosemiotics.

1 Grounding meaning in information 2 A conceptual analysis of information 3 Information is physical (negatively) 4 Interpretation 5 Reference 6 Convention