Theories of information, communication and knowledge [electronic resource] : a multidisciplinary approach / Fidelia Ibekwe-SanJuan, Thomas M Dousa, editors.
2013
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Theories of information, communication and knowledge [electronic resource] : a multidisciplinary approach / Fidelia Ibekwe-SanJuan, Thomas M Dousa, editors.
ISBN
9789400769731 electronic book
9400769733 electronic book
9789400769724
9400769733 electronic book
9789400769724
Published
Dordrecht : Springer, [2013?]
Copyright
©2014
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (vi, 331 pages) : illustrations.
Item Number
10.1007/978-94-007-6973-1 doi
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BD161
Dewey Decimal Classification
121
Summary
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.
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Includes index.
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Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed September 3, 2013).
Series
Studies in history and philosophy of science ; v.34.
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