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Library Trends, 52(3), Winter 2004
"The Philsophy of Information" edited by Ken Herold

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Luciano Floridi's 1999 monograph, Philosophy and Computing: An
Introduction, provided the impetus for the theme of this issue, more for
what it did not say about librarianship and information studies (LIS) than
otherwise. Following the pioneering works of Wilson, Nitecki, Buckland,
and Capurro (plus many of the authors of this issue), researchers in LIS
have increasingly turned to the efficacy of philosophical discourse in
probing the more fundamental aspects of our theories, including those
involving the information concept. A foundational approach to the nature
of information, however, has not been realized, either in partial or
accomplished steps, nor even as an agreed, theoretical research objective.
It is puzzling that while librarianship, in the most expansive sense of
all LIS-related professions, past and present, at its best sustains a
climate of thought, both comprehensive and nonexclusive, information
itself as the subject of study has defied our abilities to generalize and
synthesize effectively. Perhaps during periods of reassessment and
justification for library services, as well as in times of curricular
review and continuing scholarly evaluation of perceived information
demand, the necessity for every single stated position to be clarified
appears to be exaggerated. Despite this, the important question does keep
surfacing as to how information relates to who we are and what we do in
LIS.

---From the Introduction by Ken Herold

Articles and Authors Include:

"Information and Its Philosophy," Ian Cornelius

"Documentation Redux: Prolegomenon to (Another) Philosophy of
Information," Bernd Frohmann

"Community as Event," Ronald E. Day

"Information Studies Without Information," Jonathan Furner

"Relevance: Language, Semantics, Philosophy," John M. Budd	

"On Verifying the Accuracy of Information: Philosophical Perspectives,"
Don Fallis

"Arguments for Philosophical Realism in Library and Information Science,"
Birger Hjørland

"Knowledge Profiling: The Basis for Knowledge Organization," Torkild
Thellefsen

"Classification and Categorization: A Difference that Makes a Difference,"
Elin K. Jacob

"Faceted Classification and Logical Division in Information Retrieval,"
Jack Mills

"The Epistemological Foundations of Knowledge Representations," Elaine
Svenonius

"Classification, Rhetoric, and the Classificatory Horizon," Stephen Paling

"The Ubiquitous Hierarchy: An Army to Overcome the Threat of a Mob," Hope
A. Olson

"A Human Information Behavior Approach to a Philosophy of Information,"
Amanda Spink and Charles Cole

"Cybersemiotics and the Problems of the Information-Processing Paradigm as
a Candidate for a Unified Science of Information Behind Library
Information Science," Søren Brier

"LIS as Applied Philosophy of Information: A Reappraisal," Luciano Floridi

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