Brookes, Popper, and objective knowledge

Neill, S. D.

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“…Whilst others (for example Swanson [29]) independently commended the relevance of Popper's epistemology to librarianship and information science, Brookes made it the basis of a well-developed meta-theory. Neill [30] who provided a critical and detailed, though generally supportive, analysis of Brookes' series of papers, soon after their publication, in agreeing that "there is a very real place for Popper's philosophy in library and information science" and that "Brookes has been very astute in recognising the relevance of Popper to information science. Indeed, it is not for his logarithmic law of information that he [i.e.…”

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Smoother pebbles and the shoulders of giants: the developing foundations of information science

Bawden

2008

Journal of Information Science

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Citation: Bawden, D. (2008). Smoother pebbles and the shoulders of giants: the developing foundations of information science. Journal of Information Science, 34(4), pp. 415-426. doi: 10.1177/0165551508089717 This is the unspecified version of the paper.This version of the publication may differ from the final published version. Keywords: information science; information history; journal of information science; information professions; education Permanent IntroductionThe Journal of Information Science (JIS) was first published in 1979, replacing The Information Scientist (TIS) which -though described as the 'Journal of the Institute of Information Scientists' -was not generally regarded as a true academic/professional journal. The intervening period of nearly thirty years, a time span commonly taken as equivalent to a 'generation', gives the opportunity to consider the issues covered in the early issues of JIS, to set them into the context of the development of the information science discipline over time, and to assess the significance of some of the main contributions and contributors. This is done by focusing on some of the articles and editorials published in the first two volumes of JIS, covering the years 1979 and 1980, tracing some of the preceding treatment of the issues, and following later developments, particularly -though not exclusively -through the pages of TIS and JIS. The set of literature cited is selected to show the origins and development of the issues, and is in no way intended to be comprehensive.The discussion is focused around five main, albeit overlapping, themes. An initial consideration of the information science discipline itself leads fairly naturally to thoughts on the foundations of the discipline, and David Bawdenthat in turn to the central question of the nature of information. There follows a consideration of the relation between discipline and profession, and in particular the role of research, and the closely associated question of the most appropriate form of education for information science. As we shall see, all of these themes are represented in the first issues of JIS, and all have remained 'live' topics 2 to the present day.

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Section: David Bawdenmentioning

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Smoother pebbles and the shoulders of giants: the developing foundations of information science

Bawden

2008

Journal of Information Science

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“…Este concepto es central en la idea de progreso de nuestra cultura; es la convicción de que la misma naturaleza del conocimiento -el conocimiento objetivo de la ciencia y la tecnología -la misma naturaleza del conocimiento, repito, es la de avanzar sin pausas, mejorar, y llegar a ser más y más perfecto (Nisbet 5 ). Este conocimiento llega a ser objetivo (el mundo III en la concepción popperiana, Neill 6 ), cuando se comunica y se legitima por los pares dentro de la misma comunidad científica.…”

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Spinak¹

1998

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“…The subjective/objective division Many of the problems of Popper's model come from a confusion of Worlds 2 and 3. Neill [23] criticises Brookes for this, but he is by no means the first to misread Popper here (Grove lists at least five others [13]). It is my contention that the confusion goes back to Popper, and his ambiguous use of the term 'objective' knowledge.…”

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“…Reading through the literature, Popper's third World epistemological framework seems to be a popular basis on which to found an information science [6,23,31 ]. Though an advance on an earlier orthodoxy influenced by Shannon's information theory, which tended to be over-concerned with the hardware of the new age, with storage capacities, transmission rates and the like, this new model still tends to filter out the important aspects of information, and thus of information science.…”

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Do we really need World III? Information science with or without Popper

Rudd¹

1983

Journal of Information Science

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Brookes, Popper, and objective knowledge

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Smoother pebbles and the shoulders of giants: the developing foundations of information science

Smoother pebbles and the shoulders of giants: the developing foundations of information science

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Do we really need World III? Information science with or without Popper

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