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Title:	Information Studies Without Information
Author(s):	Furner, Jonathan
Subject(s):	Philosophy of information Library science --Philosophy Information science --Philosophy
Abstract:	In philosophy of language, the phenomena fundamental to human communication are routinely modeled in ways that do not require commitment to a concept of “information” separate from those of “data,” “meaning,” “communication,” “knowledge,” and “relevance” (inter alia). A taxonomy of conceptions of information may be developed that relies on commonly drawn philosophical distinctions (between linguistic, mental, and physical entities, between objects and events, and between particulars and universals); in such a taxonomy, no category requires the label “information” in order to be differentiated from others. It is suggested that a conception of information-as-relevance is currently the most productive of advances in theoretical information studies.
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: 427-446.
Genre:	Article
Type:	Text
Language:	English
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/2142/1684
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

Library Trends 52 (3) Winter 2004: The Philosophy of Information
Library Trends 52 (3) Winter 2004: The Philosophy of Information. Edited by Ken Herold.