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Luciano Floridi’s Philosophy of Technology pp 169–187Cite as

Information Science and Philosophy of Information: Approaches and Differences

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In this text we explore, in a brief and systematic way, the epistemological and theoretical groundings of Information Science (IS), understood as a transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary field, which is being developed and taught at the University of Porto over the last decade. IS’s object of study – information – is also characterized, as well as its non-symmetrical, yet complementary and elementary relationship with communication. From that basis, the points of convergence and divergence with Philosophy of Information, as it is conceived and discussed by Luciano Floridi, are put in debate.

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    The major expression of their work appears in Paul Otlet’s Traité de Documentation, published in 1934. A translation of this book has been published some years ago by Universidad de Múrcia (Otlet 1996). On Paul Otlet’s work, see for instance: (Day 1997).

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    Anthony Debons states that, before 1958, the term information science rarely appears in specialized literature (Debons 1986); and according to Shera and Cleveland, the happening that marked the transformation of documentation into IS was the International Conference on Scientific Information, that took place in Washington, in 1958, resulting from cooperation between ADI, FID, National Academy of Sciences and National Research Council. This meeting jointed the greatest names in documentation at world level (Shera and Cleveland 1977).

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    Psychological Information is quasi- or proto-information by reference to the mathematical and physical conception of Shannon and Weaver.

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    Floridi believes that “we are now slowly accepting the idea that we might be information organisms among many others, significantly but not dramatically different from natural entities and agents and smart, engineered artifacts” (Floridi 2009:156).

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da Silva, A.M., Ribeiro, F. (2012). Information Science and Philosophy of Information: Approaches and Differences. In: Demir, H. (eds) Luciano Floridi’s Philosophy of Technology. Philosophy of Engineering and Technology, vol 8. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4292-5_9

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