Librarianship and the philosophy of information

Library Philosophy and Practice

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2001, Pages

  Herold, Ken R ^a  

^a HAMILTON COLLEGE   (United States)

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18. Easun, Sue. erp.fis.utoronto.ca/~easun/skeptic
19. "One difficulty about library cataloging is that librarians have not yet been able to agree on what, fundamentally speaking, it is for. When one faces the bulky mass of minutely ramified cataloging 'codes' that catalogers have been patiently building up over the last eighty years, and examines the imposing body of scholarly precedent and dogma that guides them in their work, it may sound absurd to assert that they are not yet agreed as to what they are trying to do. But it is a fact nonetheless. As Arthur Berthold puts it: 'We have a remarkably well developed professional technique, but hardly any professional philosophy. We are still in the dark as to the meaning of our work.'....We must try to stop our present recataloging of the same book a thousand times in a thousand libraries. If we could eliminate that, then we could retain on our catalog cards every scrap of the 'bibliographic' information that we find useful there-and might even add more..." Rider, Fremont. (1944) The Scholar and the Future of the Research Library: A Problem and Its Solution. Hadham Press, New York. Pp. 34,35,39
20. Gorman, Michael. (1997) "What is the future of cataloguing and cataloguers?" 63rd IFLA General Conference. International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions. www.ifla.org/IV/ifla63/63gorm.htm
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23. Schneider, Georg (1926); translation by Ralph Robert Shaw (1934) Theory and History of Bibliography. Columbia Univ. Press, New York.
24. For an overview of this history in terms of information systems, see "The role of classification schemes in Internet resource description and discovery" Part III of DESIRE - Development of a European Service for Information on Research and Education. Deliverable D3.2.3. (1997) www.lub.lu.se/desire/radar/reports/D3.2.3/
25. Khalidi, Muhammad Ali. (1998) "Natural Kinds and Crosscutting Categories" Journal of Philosophy, Jan. 1998, 33-50
26. See for example, Jacob, Elin K. (1994) "Communication and Category Structure: The Communicative Process as a Constraint on the Semantic Representation of Information" in Advances in Classification Research: Proceedings of the...ASIS SIG/CR Classification Research Workshop. Volume IV. Learned Information, Medford, N.J. for American Society for Information Science. Describes categorization and contrasts Wittgenstein's theory of family resemblances and Putnam's theory of natural kinds.
27. International Conference on the Foundations of Information Science (1st: 1994: Madrid) From Computers and Quantum Physics to Cells, Nervous Systems, and Societies. Proceedings in Bio Systems, 38 (1996), 87-266. (2nd: 1996: Vienna) The Quest for a Unified Theory of Information. Gordon and Breach, Amsterdam. fis.iguw.tuwien.ac.at/
28. International Conference on the Foundations of Information Science (1st: 1994: Madrid) From Computers and Quantum Physics to Cells, Nervous Systems, and Societies. Proceedings in Bio Systems, 38 (1996), 87-266. (2nd: 1996: Vienna) The Quest for a Unified Theory of Information. Gordon and Breach, Amsterdam. fis.iguw.tuwien.ac.at/
29. Dick, Archie L. (1999) "Epistemological Positions and Library and Information Science," The Library Quarterly, 69 (July 1999), 305-323.
30. Von Foerster, Heinz. (1980) "Epistemology of Communication," in The Myths of Information. Pp. 18+; Von Foerster sees likening of information with signals an artifact of militarist 'command mode' thinking endemic to historic development of general purpose computers In the same volume, Magoroh Maruyama, "Information and Communication in Poly-Epistemological Systems," 28+ See also his "Metaorganization of Information," Cybernetica, 8 (1965), 224-36.
31. Von Foerster, Heinz. (1980) "Epistemology of Communication," in The Myths of Information. Pp. 18+; Von Foerster sees likening of information with signals an artifact of militarist 'command mode' thinking endemic to historic development of general purpose computers In the same volume, Magoroh Maruyama, "Information and Communication in Poly-Epistemological Systems," 28+ See also his "Metaorganization of Information," Cybernetica, 8 (1965), 224-36.
32. Tim Berners-Lee, with Mark Fischetti. (1999) Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web by Its Inventor. HarperSanFrancisco, San Francisco.
33. "Boole got control over the logical connectives or, and, and not; Frege took care of implies and for all; Peano introduced a flexible symbolism; Russell showed how to put all of mathematics into a standard logical form; Hilbert showed how to build up logical systems of many different kinds." Rucker, Rudy v. B. (1987) Mind Tools: The Five Levels of Mathematical Reality. Houghton Mifflin, Boston. p. 208
34. Devlin, Keith. (1991) Logic and Information. Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge; and (1997) Goodbye Descartes: The End of Logic and the Search for a New Cosmology of the Mind. Wiley, New York.
35. Devlin, Keith. (1991) Logic and Information. Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge; and (1997) Goodbye Descartes: The End of Logic and the Search for a New Cosmology of the Mind. Wiley, New York.
36. Stanford University. Center for the Study of Language and Information. www-csli.Stanford.edu/info
37. Fox, Christopher John. (1983) Information and Misinformation: An Investigation of the Notions of Information, Misinformation, and Misinforming. Greenwood Press, Westport, Conn.
38. Dummett, Michael. (1973) Frege: Philosophy of Language. Harper & Row, New York. Dummett repeats the importance of the Fregean analysis in a new framing of the fundamental question of ontology: " 'What is there?', where, of course, since an actual inventory is not required, the intention of the question is, 'What kinds of thing are there?'. How the question is broken down then depends upon the basic principles of categorization. On the traditional conception, the first step towards breaking it down consists of specializing to the two questions, 'What particulars are there?' and 'Are there universals, and, if so, what universals are there?', where, of course, the second question raises the problem of nominalism as traditionally conceived. The question, 'What objects are there?', on the other hand, arises only against the background of a Fregean ontological perspective, and its companions are, 'Are there concepts?, 'Are there relations?', 'Are there functions?' and 'Are there truth-values?'. The question about objects then may be broken down further into ones concerning concrete objects and abstract objects." at 473. This reasoning is cited by Newton-Smith. Information apart from librarianship and information science may evolve a philosophical literature as rich and complex as has time. See fn. 44, below.
39. "[Wittgenstein] thought there was a basic set of propositions that constitute the facts of the world. I would say that there is just a basic set of factual content about objects, which may, and usually does, generate multiple equivalent propositions." Collier, John. (2000) Notes for a Talk: Information Connects Logic and Causation. University of Newcastle. Department of Philosophy. 16 March, 2000. www.newcastle.edu.au/department/pl/Staff/JohnCollier/papers/infcauslogic.notes. pdf
40. Dummett, Michael. (1973) Frege: Philosophy of Language. Harper & Row, New York. at 491.
41. Cooper, William S. (1978) Foundations of Logico-Linguistics: A Unified Theory of Information. D. Reidel, Dordrecht.
42. Losee, Robert M. (1997) "A Discipline Independent Definition of Information" 48 JASIS Issue 3 (1997)
43. "The Beginnings of Set Theory" in The MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive. University of St. Andrews. School of Mathematics & Statistics. [n.d.] www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Beginnings_of_set_theory.html
44. Litwin, Rory. (1998) Intellectual Foundations of Modern Librarianship. www.biermans.com/culminating/litwin1.html
45. Chaitin, Gregory J. (1982) "Gödel's Theorem and Information" International Journal of Theoretical Physics 22 (1982), 941-954. www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/CDMTCS/chaitin/georgia.html
46. Chalmers, D. J. (1996) The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory. Oxford University Press, New York. Mulhauser, Gregory R. (1997) Mind Out of Matter: Topics in the Physical Foundations of Consciousness and Cognition. Kluwer Academic, Dordrecht.
47. Chalmers, D. J. (1996) The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory. Oxford University Press, New York. Mulhauser, Gregory R. (1997) Mind Out of Matter: Topics in the Physical Foundations of Consciousness and Cognition. Kluwer Academic, Dordrecht.
48. Newton-Smith, W.H. (1980), The Structure of Time. Routlege & Kegan Paul, London.
49. Gell-Mann, Murray. (1994) The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and the Complex. W.H. Freeman, New York.
50. Brier, Søren. (1999) "What is a Possible Ontological and Epistemological Framework for a True Universal 'Information Science'? The Suggestion of a Cybersemiotics." in The Quest for a Unified Theory of Information. Gordon and Breach, Amsterdam.
51. T.S. Eliot (1934) The Rock, stanza I: "Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?"