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Content

Introduction; 1. Fidelia Ibekwe-SanJuan and Thomas Dousa.- 2. Cybersemiotics: A new foundation for transdisciplinary theory of information, cognition, meaning, communication and consciousness; Soren Brier.- 3. Epistemology and the Study of Social Information within the Perspective of a Unified Theory of Information;Wolfgang Hofkirchner.- 4. Perception and Testimony as Data Providers; Luciano Floridi.- 5. Human communication from the semiotic perspective; Winfried Noth.- 6. Mind the gap: transitions between concepts of information in varied domains; Lyn Robinson and David Bawden.- 7. Information and the disciplines: A conceptual meta-analysis; Jonathan Furner.- 8. Epistemological Challenges for Information Science; Ian Cornelius.- 9. The nature of information science and its core concepts; Birger Hjorland.- 10. Visual information construing: bistability as a revealer of mediating patterns; Sylvie Leleu-Merviel. - 11. Understanding users' informational constructs via a triadic method approach: a case study; Michel Labour. - 12. Documentary languages and the demarcation of information units in textual information: the case of Julius O. Kaisers's Systematic Indexing

Series

Studies in history and philosophy of science ; 34

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Imprint

Mountain View, CA : The Research Libraries Group

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Abstract

Enthält: ANDERLA, G.: Is the West losing the information productivity contest?; BOEHM, E.H.: Hitler's decision to attack the Soviet Union, 1941; BURNS, C.: Three Miles Island: the information meltdown; CAWKELL, A.E.: The Tacoma Bridge disaster: a lesson in disregarding information?; DIENER, R.A.V.: Cultural dissolution, a societal information disaster: the case of the Yir Yoront in Australia; KIST, J.: Disaster at Arnhem: the role of information during the operation 'Market Garden' in September 1944; LYTLE, R.: The PPS information system development disaster in the early 1980s; NORTON, B. u. S. GOTTS: The events of October 1987; PRICE, W.H.: The pinnacle of deception: civil war intelligence and signals in 1864; SOPHAR, G.: $ 170.000 down the drain: the MRAIS story; TAYLOR, R.S.: Comments on Gaskill's 'Timetable of a failure'; WEITZEL, J.R. u. D.A. MARCHAND: The US Stock market crash of 1987: the role of information system malfunctions

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Enthält die Beiträge: WOLF, M.T. u. R.B. MILLER: The information future: data, data, everywhere!; WOLFE, G.: Libraries on the superhighway: rest stop or roadkill?; AGRE, P.E.: Institutional circuity: thinking about the forms and uses of information; LYRIS, S.O.: Multiply and conquer; MASON, L.: The elephant and the net cruiser: regulating communication on the net; BRIN, D.: The Internet as a commons; MARTIN, M.S.: Problems in information transfer in the age of the computer; BARNES, J.: Information and unfictionable science; STARRS, P.F. u. HUNTSINGER, L.: The matrix, cyberpunk literature, and the apocalyptic landscapes of information technology; PRANSKY, J.: Robots: our future information intermediaries; CHISLENKO, A.: Intelligent information filters and enhanced reality; BARNES, S.: The impossible dream

Source

Information technology and libraries. 14(1995) no.4, S.219-269

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Series

Studies in cognition

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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)

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Abstract

For decades, we have been told we live in the "information age"-a time when disruptive technological advancement has reshaped the categories and social uses of knowledge and when quantitative assessment is increasingly privileged. Such methodologies and concepts of information are usually considered the provenance of the natural and social sciences, which present them as politically and philosophically neutral. Yet the humanities should and do play an important role in interpreting and critiquing the historical, cultural, and conceptual nature of information. This book is one of two companion volumes that explore theories and histories of information from a humanistic perspective. They consider information as a long-standing feature of social, cultural, and conceptual management, a matter of social practice, and a fundamental challenge for the humanities today. Information: A Reader provides an introduction to the concept of information in historical, literary, and cultural studies. It features excerpts from more than forty texts by theorists and critics who have helped establish the notion of the "information age" or expand upon it. The reader establishes a canonical framework for thinking about information in humanistic terms. Together with Information: Keywords, it sets forth a major humanistic vision of the concept of information.

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Date

29. 7.2001 10:22:25

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Date

7. 1.1996 22:47:52

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Abstract

Over the last four decades computers and the internet have become an intrinsic part of all our lives, but this speed of development has left related philosophical enquiry behind. Featuring the work of computer scientists and philosophers, these essays provide an overview of an exciting new area of philosophy that is still taking shape.

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Abstract

This volume has the virtue of airing a number of refreshing voices that are not often heard on this side of the Atlantic, and that bring perspectives that should energize our conversations about information in living systems." --Evelyn Fox Keller, MIT "Terzis and Arp have brought together an international array of experimental and theoretical scientists, philosophers, and cognitive scientists to explore the most consequential notion in modern biology--information. The notion is indispensable to molecular biology, and yet we have no idea how seriously we need to take it in that domain. The role of information is equally central to the origin and maintenance of life in a Second Law-driven world that destroys order. And the naturalization of information is the only bridge that can be crossed from cognitive psychology to neuroscience. All of these issues are faced squarely and accessibly in this important volume." --Alex Rosenberg, Duke University "Since the 1960s at least, it has become clear that we cannot content ourselves with describing living systems, and their life cycles, only in terms of matter and energy. An additional dimension--information--is the necessary complement. However, following an initial enthusiasm for an information-based approach to biology, conceptual developments and practical applications have been slow, to such an extent that doubts have eventually arisen, among biologists and philosophers alike, as to the real relevance, if not the legitimacy, of this approach. How profoundly ill-advised were those concerns is dramatically demonstrated by this excellent collection. Information and Living Systems provides a convincing and healthily fresh overview of this subject area in many of its ramifications, throughout the whole of biology." --Alessandro Minelli, University of Padova "Since the time of the discovery of the double-helical structure of DNA and its expression, scientists and philosophers have become increasingly aware that information is integral to the understanding of the organization of life--indeed, to the understanding of life. Information and Living Systems covers the gamut of issues--from the properties of the organism itself to epigenetic and evolutionary considerations to cognition, language, and personality. It transcends in scope and depth any available publications on bioinformation known to me. It is an important scholarly contribution that will interest professional biologists, philosophers, and information theorists, and will be very useful in courses for advanced undergraduate and graduate students.

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Date

22. 6.2005 15:30:21