Epistemic values and information management

Information Society

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 175-189

  Fallis, Don ^a   Whitcomb, Dennis ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Applied epistemology; Decision analysis; Epistemic value; Information ethics; Information management; Information science; Knowledge acquisition; Knowledge management; Philosophy of information; Value hierarchy

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449514289     PISSN: 01972243     EISSN: 10876537     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01972240902848831     Document Type: Article

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