This special issue of Information Systems Journal (ISJ) is devoted to questions of the philosophy and epistemology of information systems (IS) research. Epistemology is the discipline of questioning the truth claims of science : how and what can we know, and how do the knowledge claims of...

This special issue of Information Systems Journal (ISJ) is devoted to questions of the philosophy and epistemology of information systems (IS) research. Epistemology is the discipline of questioning the truth claims of science : how and what can we know, and how do the knowledge claims of...

The concepts of objectivity and causality, as they are used in general in IS research, and in particular in critical realism, are no longer valid in Physics. Therefore, IS research should consider the “copernician revolution” that happened in Physics and in other sciences. Bhor, Heisenberg...