Information Science as an Interscience
Chandos Publishing (Oxford) Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-08-100140-0 (ISBN)
Carel S. (Fanie) de Beer is Emeritus Professor at the Department of Information Science, University of South Africa (Unisa), Pretoria, South Africa, and is currently an Extraordinary Professor of Information Science at the University of Pretoria. He graduated in Agriculture and Philosophy (doctoral studies) at the University of Pretoria and the University of Paris X. Nanterre, France. He has taught Philosophy, Communications and Information Science at various universities, undertaken research in all these fields, and was involved in consultancy work in the fields of knowledge generation, invention, dissemination and application. His research interests include the philosophy and theory of information, philosophies and theories of technics and technology, and knowledge invention, dissemination and utilization. He is also committed to research on reading theory and on the re-invention of human spirituality and noology.
1. An acritical philosophy of information 2. Towards the idea of information science as an interscience 3. Information science in a post-scientific position: Part 1: The limitations of science and information science 4. Information science in a post-scientific position: Part 2: The conditions for an alternative 5. Method/beyond-method: the demands, challenges and excitements of scholarly information work 6. Methodology and noology: Amazing prospects for library and information science 7. Let the new knowledge come: the atlas of knowledges 8. The contemporary knowledge worker (the troubadour of knowledge): comprehensive and exciting challenges 9. A proposed philosophico-ethical approach towards the electronic information era
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 13.3.2015 |
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Reihe/Serie | Chandos Information Professional Series |
Verlagsort | OXford |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 220 g |
Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Buchhandel / Bibliothekswesen |
Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie | |
ISBN-10 | 0-08-100140-1 / 0081001401 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-08-100140-0 / 9780081001400 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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