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Popper, Otto Selz, and the Rise of Evolutionary Epistemology
Bawden, David - In: Journal of Documentation 60 (2004) 4, pp. 476-478
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014853074
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Library and information science and the philosophy of science
Hjørland, Birger - In: Journal of Documentation 61 (2005) 1, pp. 5-10
information science (LIS) and the philosophy of science. Design/methodology/approach – The most important earlier collected works … country in which philosophy of science has the highest priority in LIS education. The plan of the guest editor was that each …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014853097
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Empiricism, rationalism and positivism in library and information science
Hjørland, Birger - In: Journal of Documentation 61 (2005) 1, pp. 130-155
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the importance and influence of the epistemologies: “empiricism”, “rationalism” and “positivism” in library and information science (LIS). Design/methodology/approach – First, outlines the historical development of these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014853105
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Comments on the articles and proposals for further work
Hjørland, Birger - In: Journal of Documentation 61 (2005) 1, pp. 156-163
. Findings – Many epistemological views, e.g. social constructivism, critical theory, feminist epistemology, postmodernism and …
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The Philosophy of Information
Buckland, Michael K. - In: Journal of Documentation 61 (2005) 5, pp. 684-686
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Information and experience, a dialogue
Gorichanaz, Tim - In: Journal of Documentation 73 (2017) 3, pp. 500-508
epistemology and aesthetics. Originality/value The value of studying human experiences of information is grounded in work spanning … philosophy, psychology and a number of social science methodologies, and it is contextualized within information science …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014855404
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About and on Behalf of Scriptum Est by Vesa Suominen
Laporte, Steven - In: Journal of Documentation 73 (2017) 1, pp. 181-184
Purpose This book review aims to draw attention to the often disregarded philosophical foundations of the library. Both the library as an institution and the science that studies its workings, are critically analyzed and put into an epistemological and even ideological perspective....
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Social constructionism and entrepreneurship
Lindgren, Monica; Packendorff, Johann - In: International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research 15 (2009) 1, pp. 25-47
Purpose – The purpose of this article is to develop a social constructionist approach to entrepreneurship and to discuss its consequences for entrepreneurship research. Design/methodology/approach – Based on a review of current methodological debates in the entrepreneurship field concerning...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014769741
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Sociological contributions to futures’ theory building
Erik Karlsen, Jan; Øverland, Erik F.; Karlsen, Hanne - In: Foresight 12 (2010) 3, pp. 59-72
Purpose – This article aims to contribute to futures theory building by assessing the inherent ontological and epistemological presumptions in foresight studies. Such premises, which are usually embedded in foresight studies, are contrasted with sociological imagination and contemporary social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014743110
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Unity of knowledge versus Kant's heteronomy with a reference to the problem of money, finance and real economy relations in a new global financial architecture
Alam Choudhury, Masudul - In: International Journal of Social Economics 37 (2010) 10, pp. 764-778
‐scientific argumentation premised on the application of the epistemology of unity of knowledge across contrasting shades of reasoning, to the … specific case of money, finance and real economy is treated in the context of the epistemology of unity of knowledge contra … Kantian problem of heteronomy. Design/methodology/approach – The comparative study of received literature in the history of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014805627