Information Ontology as Anti-Metaphysics

Ping Wang,Jian Wang

doi:10.3390/proceedings47010052

Abstract

Followed by the general review of various kinds of information ontology as metaphysical thoughts, two main approaches can be illustrated. The basic feature of this kind of metaphysics is its theoretical explanation for the constructivism of the whole world. However, metaphysics is undermining its study of existence itself by taking existence as substantial entities, attempting to construct the whole world, or separating existence and thoughts. With the insight from anti-metaphysical approaches, this paper discusses three aspects of the information ontology.

Highlights

Every philosophical thought has its ontological requirements
Such research draws on material-information dualism based on cognitive research, formal ontology based on information science, and information technological ontology on the studies of digital objects
The basic points of the Wu’s information ontology are: (a) material firstness, information secondness, and the two are unified; (b) the existential domain is divided into three kinds of information, information in itself, information for itself, and regenerated information, where social information is the unification of the three; (c) the discovery of the information world reveals the dual existence and dual evolution of the natural world; (d) in short, any object is both physical and informational, and is dual unity with indirect existence and direct existence [1]

Summary

Current Information Ontologies and Their Metaphysical Generalization

The current international information ontological research is complicated and comprehensive It mainly includes the following genres: the first is Wu Kun’s information ontology based on materialism, and the second is Dodig-Crnkovic’s so called pan-informatics based on info-computationalism, the third is Floridi’s information metaphysics related to information epistemology, and the fourth is Hofkirchner, Brier and Deacon’s information local ontology related to interdisciplinary research. The basic points of Floridi’s information metaphysics include: (a) based on the philosophical basis of Kant’s epistemology, semantic information is defined as well-formed and meaningful data;.

Basic Characteristics of Information Metaphysics

How Should We Think Anti-Metaphysically?