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INFORMATION PRIORITIES: REVISING OUR “WORLD-VIEW” OF SERVICE

Advances in Library Administration and Organization

ISBN: 978-0-76231-121-7, eISBN: 978-1-84950-284-9

ISSN: 0732-0671

Publication date: 15 August 2004

Abstract

In an intriguing and provocative paper in Social Epistemology, Luciano Floridi (2002) seeks to define library and information science as applied philosophy of information. In his examination of what the philosophy of information is, Floridi notes: The subsequent growth of the information society and the appearance of the infosphere (the semantic environment in which millions of people spend their time nowadays) have further influenced the development of contemporary philosophy. This has moved from focusing on the domain represented by the memory and languages or organized knowledge – the instruments whereby the infosphere is managed – to focusing on the nature of its very fabric and essence, information itself. Information has thus arisen as a concept as fundamental and philosophically important as ‘being’, ‘knowledge’, ‘life’, ‘intelligence’, ‘meaning’ or ‘moral good and evil’ – all pivotal concepts with which it is interdependent – and so equally worthy of autonomous investigation (p. 42).Floridi goes on to state that “The philosophy of information revitalizes old philosophical questions and poses, or rather identifies, new crucial problems. It also helps us to revise our world-view” (p. 42).

Citation

Kopp, J.J. and Terrio, D. (2004), "INFORMATION PRIORITIES: REVISING OUR “WORLD-VIEW” OF SERVICE", Advances in Library Administration and Organization (Advances in Library Administration and Organization, Vol. 21), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Bingley, pp. 193-199. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0732-0671(04)21010-0

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