摘要：We have intentionally included the word “informatics” in the title of this volume, as distinct from “computer science”, because the philosophical reflections it contains go beyond the relatively narrow domain of what the latter refers to. There is, at present, an increasingly noteworthy tendency to use the term “informatics” to describe a broad field of research into the processing of information by various types of system – not just computer systems, but also animate or social ones. This also includes the interdisciplinary study of the concept of information itself.
