Document (#32012)

Editor

Herold, K.

Title

¬The philosophy of information

Issue

[Themenheft].

Source

Library trends. 52(2004) no.3, S.377-657

Year

2004

Abstract

Luciano Floridi's 1999 monograph, Philosophy and Computing: An Introduction, provided the impetus for the theme of this issue, more for what it did not say about librarianship and information studies (LIS) than otherwise. Following the pioneering works of Wilson, Nitecki, Buckland, and Capurro (plus many of the authors of this issue), researchers in LIS have increasingly turned to the efficacy of philosophical discourse in probing the more fundamental aspects of our theories, including those involving the information concept. A foundational approach to the nature of information, however, has not been realized, either in partial or accomplished steps, nor even as an agreed, theoretical research objective. It is puzzling that while librarianship, in the most expansive sense of all LIS-related professions, past and present, at its best sustains a climate of thought, both comprehensive and nonexclusive, information itself as the subject of study has defied our abilities to generalize and synthesize effectively. Perhaps during periods of reassessment and justification for library services, as well as in times of curricular review and continuing scholarly evaluation of perceived information demand, the necessity for every single stated position to be clarified appears to be exaggerated. Despite this, the important question does keep surfacing as to how information relates to who we are and what we do in LIS.

Content

Enthält die Beiträge: Information and Its Philosophy (Ian Cornelius) - Documentation Redux: Prolegomenon to (Another) Philosophy of Information (Bernd Frohmann) - Community as Event (Ronald E. Day) - Information Studies Without Information (Jonathan Furner) - Relevance: Language, Semantics, Philosophy (John M. Budd) - On Verifying the Accuracy of Information: Philosophical Perspectives (Don Fallis) - Arguments for Philosophical Realism in Library and Information Science (Birger Hjørland) - Knowledge Profiling: The Basis for Knowledge Organization (Torkild Thellefsen) - Classification and Categorization: A Difference that Makes a Difference (Elin K. Jacob) - Faceted Classification and Logical Division in Information Retrieval (Jack Mills) - The Epistemological Foundations of Knowledge Representations (Elaine Svenonius) - Classification, Rhetoric, and the Classificatory Horizon (Stephen Paling) - The Ubiquitous Hierarchy: An Army to Overcome the Threat of a Mob (Hope A. Olson) - A Human Information Behavior Approach to a Philosophy of Information (Amanda Spink and Charles Cole) - Cybersemiotics and the Problems of the Information-Processing Paradigm as a Candidate for a Unified Science of Information Behind Library Information Science (Søren Brier)

Theme

Information

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