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.
Publisher
Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
ISSN
0024-2594
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/1679
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