Information science as an interscience: rethinking science, method and practice
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- Full title :Information science as an interscience : rethinking science, method and practice / Carel Stephanus de Beer.
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- Publication Date:©2015
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- Publisher(s):Chandos Publishing
- Place of Publication:Waltham, MA
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2015
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- Description:1 online resource
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- ISBN:9780081001837, 0081001835, 0081001401, 9780081001400
- oclc:ocn905223969
- LC Classification:Z669.7
- Dewey Decimal:020.72
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Front Cover; Information Science as an Interscience; Copyright Page; Contents; About the author; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 An acritical philosophy of information; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Philosophy as an act of thinking; 1.3 Philosophy and science; 1.4 Philosophy and information science; 1.5 Modes of thinking; 1.5.1 Complex thinking; 1.5.2 Multiple thinking; 1.5.3 Inventive thinking; 1.6 Conclusion; References; 2 Towards the idea of information science as an interscience; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Changes in landscape; 2.3 Rethinking human thinking; 2.4 A new scientific approach.
2.5 Challenges to information science2.6 Information science: its functioning and responsibility; 2.6.1 Its functioning; 2.6.2 Its responsibility; References; 3 Information science in a post-scientific position; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 The traditional, generally accepted conception of science; 3.3 Information science seems to be out of step (and will remain out of step, unless ...); 3.4 Thinking differently about science; 3.5 Conclusion; References; 4 Information science in a post-scientific position; 4.1 Introduction.
4.2 Alternative offered to information science in terms of this other conception of s…
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