Information science as an interscience rethinking science, method and practice

• Main Author: De Beer, Fanie (Author)
• Format: Unknown
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Chandos Publishing 2015
• Subjects: Information science > Philosophy
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• Physical Description: xv, 139 pages 23 cm
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 9780081001400

Science is first and foremost an intellectual activity, an activity of thought. Therefore, how do we, as information scientists, respond intellectually to what is happening in the world of information and knowledge development, given the context of new sociocultural and knowledge landscapes? Information Science as an Interscience poses many challenges both to information science, philosophy and to information practice, and only when information science is understood as an interscience that operates in a multifaceted way, will it be able to comply with these challenges.