Philosophical Issues In Information SystemsR L Winder, S K Probert, I. A. Beeson This ground-breaking book represents the work of a variety of researchers in information systems that share a common concern to use philosophical approaches to help solve problems in information systems. It brings together many of the leading researchers in the field and provides a broad-based range of chapters addressing key contemporary issues in the field. It looks at philosophical and social implications of the development of IS, relates these issues to the role IS plays in contemporary business and cultural theory, and discussed IS in a social and philosophical context, rather than simply as technology. |
Contents
Implications of Regarding Information as Meaningful Rather | 23 |
Thoughts Towards a Framework for Critical Practice 51 | 51 |
The Language Games of Information | 65 |
The Nature of Information and its Relationship to Meaning | 73 |
Organic Information for the Organic Organization? An | 95 |
Introduction | 109 |
The Metaphysical Assumptions of the Main Soft Systems | 131 |
Towards a Paradigm of Information System | 151 |
Introducing Information | 175 |
Introduction | 203 |
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Author Contact Details | 247 |
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