Information Structure: Afterword

Information Structure: Afterword

In its present incarnation, the paper on Information Structure originally written in 1996 appears in the form in which it has been most circulated, a lightly revised version dating from 1998. These notes offer some background and history on the development of the framework discussed there, and a very brief overview of its subsequent development and my current views about the role of the context...

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For two topics treated in this monograph, there are important recent articles or reports that could not be included in the body of the monograph, primarily because of their recency. The editors take this opportunity to mention some of them here, with apologies for selection bias. The problem posed by the incomplete and possibly inaccurate assessment of the radiation exposure of liquidators is t...

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Francisco J. Varela was a student and collaborator of Humberto R. Maturana. Their pioneering collaboration on Autopoiesis and Cognition reestablished “processes of living” as the principle topic of biological explorations. This topic had dropped out of the discourse of biology after the work of Jacob von Uexküll. Autopoiesis brought a new framework to biology. I say framework because it was not...

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An Afterword in Four Binarisms