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Title: | Information and Its Philosophy |
Author(s): | Cornelius, Ian |
Subject(s): | Philosophy of information
Library science --Philosophy Information science --Philosophy |
Abstract: | Three problems in relation to Luciano Floridi’s work on the Philosophy of Information (PI) and the relationship of PI to Library and Information Science (LIS) are considered: the claim that LIS is a materials-based discipline, Floridi’s claim about Information as a message transfer system, and his downgrading of Social Epistemology to be a subset of PI. The recent history of LIS and the practice of professional library work are examined for evidence of the basis for making claims about LIS. A view of information based on individual interpretations is preferred to Floridi’s account, which is found to be too innocent of LIS practice to be accepted without revision, as is his view of LIS as an applied PI. |
Issue Date: | 2004 |
Publisher: | Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. |
Citation Info: | In Library Trends 52(3) Winter 2004: 377-386. |
Genre: | Article |
Type: | Text |
Language: | English |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2142/1679 |
ISSN: | 0024-2594 |
Publication Status: | published or submitted for publication |
Rights Information: | Copyright owned by Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. 2004. |
Date Available in IDEALS: | 2007-07-23 |
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Library Trends 52 (3) Winter 2004: The Philosophy of Information
Library Trends 52 (3) Winter 2004: The Philosophy of Information. Edited by Ken Herold.