| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 331 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 0929-6425 ; v. 34 |
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Studies in history and philosophy of science (Dordrecht, Netherlands) ; v. 34.
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| Contents |
Introduction / Thomas M. Dousa, Fidelia Ibekwe-SanJuan -- The Transdisciplinary View of Information Theory from a Cybersemiotic Perspective / Søren Brier -- Epistemology and the Study of Social Information Within the Perspective of a Unified Theory of Information / Wolfgang Hofkirchner -- Perception and Testimony as Data Providers / Luciano Floridi -- Human Communication from the Semiotic Perspective / Winfried Nöth -- Mind the Gap: Transitions Between Concepts of Information in Varied Domains / Lyn Robinson, David Bawden -- Information Without Information Studies / Jonathan Furner -- Epistemological Challenges for Information Science: Constructing Information / Ian Cornelius -- Information Science and Its Core Concepts: Levels of Disagreement / Birger Hjørland -- Visual Information Construing: Bistability as a Revealer of Mediating Patterns / Sylvie Leleu-Merviel -- Understanding Users' Informational Constructs via a Triadic Method Approach: A Case Study / Michel Labour -- Documentary Languages and the Demarcation of Information Units in Textual Information: The Case of Julius O. Kaiser's Systematic Indexing / Thomas M. Dousa |
| Summary |
This book addresses some of the key questions that scientists have been asking themselves for centuries: what is knowledgeWhat is informationHow do we know that we know somethingHow do we construct meaning from the perceptions of thingsAlthough no consensus exists on a common definition of the concepts of information and communication, few can reject the hypothesis that information - whether perceived as " object " or as " process "--Is a pre-condition for knowledge. Epistemology is the study of how we know things (anglophone meaning) or the study of how scientific knowledge is arrive |
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This book addresses some of the key questions that scientists have been asking themselves for centuries: what is knowledge? What is information? How do we know that we know something? How do we construct meaning from the perceptions of things? Although no consensus exists on a common definition of the concepts of information and communication, few can reject the hypothesis that information - whether perceived as " object " or as " process "--Is a pre-condition for knowledge. Epistemology is the study of how we know things (anglophone meaning) or the study of how scientific knowledge is arrive |
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This book addresses some of the key questions that scientists have been asking themselves for centuries: what is knowledge? What is information? How do we know that we know something? How do we construct meaning from the perceptions of things? Although no consensus exists on a common definition of the concepts of information and communication, few can reject the hypothesis that information-- whether perceived as "object" or as "process"--Is a pre-condition for knowledge. Epistemology is the study of how we know things (anglophone meaning) or the study of how scientific knowledge is arrived at and validated (francophone conception). To adopt an epistemological stance is to commit oneself to render an account of what constitutes knowledge or in procedural terms, to render an account of when one can claim to know something. An epistemological theory imposes constraints on the interpretation of human cognitive interaction with the world. It goes without saying that different epistemological theories will have more or less restrictive criteria to distinguish what constitutes knowledge from what is not. If information is a pre-condition for knowledge acquisition, giving an account of how knowledge is acquired should impact our comprehension of information and communication as concepts. While a lot has been written on the definition of these concepts, less research has attempted to establish explicit links between differing theoretical conceptions of these concepts and the underlying epistemological stances. This is what this volume attempts to do. It offers a multidisciplinary exploration of information and communication as perceived in different disciplines and how those perceptions affect theories of knowledge |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed September 3, 2013) |
| Subject |
Knowledge, Theory of.
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Semantics (Philosophy)
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epistemology.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Epistemology.
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Droit.
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Sciences sociales.
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Sciences humaines.
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Knowledge, Theory of
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Semantics (Philosophy)
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Wissenschaftstheorie
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Informationstheorie
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Informations- und Dokumentationswissenschaft
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Kommunikationswissenschaft
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Wissen
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Ibekwe-SanJuan, Fidelia, editor.
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Dousa, Thomas Mark, editor.
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| ISBN |
9789400769731 |
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9400769733 |
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