Geometry: The Third Book of Foundations

Abstract

one of his other books. This is unfortunate as it is exactly this philosophy of language that is supposed to get rid of the myth of information as a natural object. Thus, we are in principle being asked to accept a solution based on a language-philosophical foundation that we cannot properly evaluate. That is ironic in a philosophical analysis of the consequences of tacit (and misguided) philosophical foundations. However, the brilliance of What Is Information? lies in Janich’s endeavour to reconceptualise information as a cultural construct. For Janich, the ultimate mistake in philosophy of science is the decoupling of information and culture. The theorisation of information as a natural object decouples information from the cultural practice of communication that is information’s actual origin. As Janich puts it,