Introduction
1: Signals
2: Signals in Nature
3: The Flow of Information
4: Evolution
5: Evolution in Lewis Signaling Games
6: Deception
7: Learning
8: Learning in Lewis Signaling Games
9: Generalizing Signaling Games: Synonyms, Bottlenecks and Other
Mismatches
10: Inventing New Signals
11: Networks I: Information Processing
12: Complex Signals and Compositionality
13: Networks II: Teamwork
14: Learning to Network
Brian Skyrms is a Distinguished Professor of logic and Philosophy of Science at the University of California Irvine, and Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University.
excellent . . . deserves to be read by anyone who is interested in
the origins and analysis of communication and information
processing . . . an exciting book that blazes a trail towards a new
understanding of communication and information processing.
This book will make highly rewarding reading for philosophers,
economists and biologists alike...an important addition to the
literature on signalling theory, and should be widely
discussed.
*Armin W. Schulz, Journal of Economic Methodology*
Signals opens up many projects and theoretical directions. A slogan
might be offered: a theory of meaning is a theory of
sender-receiver coordination. From this point of view, many earlier
approaches to meaning have been one-sided, focusing on either the
expressive side or the interpretive side of an essentially
two-sided set-up. Skyrms's naturalization and extension of the
Lewis sender-receiver model is one of the most exciting
developments in recent philosophy.
*Peter Godfrey-Smith, Mind*
Signals is an exciting book that blazes a trail towards a new
understanding of communication and information processing.
*Elliott O.Wagner and Michael Franke, British Journal for the
Philosophy of Science*
an extremely stimulating introduction to a fast growing
literature... The book is impressively successful in demonstrating
the sheer variety of links that signals have to many philosophical
themes, as well as the daring scope for future work. One can only
hope that this signal is successfully received.
*Cedric Paternotte, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews*
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