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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 |
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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.