Philosophical Issues In Information Systems (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Winder, R L; Beeson, I. A.; Probert, S K

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This text introduces diverse issues of ethics, politics, language, meaning, methodogy, organization and biology, as they relate to the role information systems play in contemporary business systems and cultural theory.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040284070
• Artikelnr.: 72278990

Autorenporträt

R L Winder, S K Probert, I. A. Beeson

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Ethical and political aspects: some philosophical and logical
aspects of infomation systems, Fenton F. Robb; implications of regarding
information as meaningful rather than factual, Norma Romm; the tool
perspective on information system design - what Heidegger's philosophy
can't do, Martin Spaul; thoughts towards a framework for critical practice,
Anne Moggridge. Part 2 Language and meaning: patterns on glass - the
language games of information, Jim Gilligan; the nature of information and
its relationship to meaning, John Mingers; mapping information systems on
to the real world, Frank Gregory; organic information for the organic
organization? - an application of the work of Talcott Parsons to
information systems, Richard Kamm. Part 3 Methodology: backing into
philosophy via information systems, Brian Petheram; software engineering as
a Kuhnian discipline, Paul Wernick and Russel Winder; the metaphysical
assumptions of the main Soft Systems Methodology advocates, Stephen
Probert; towards a paradigm of information systems, Marcus Lyncy. Part 4
Organizational aspects: sustainable information in community organizations,
Nick Plant; a new philosophy, a new agenda - introducing information
systems into complex organizations, Stuart Maguire; anthropological
reflections on systems engineering - seeing is believing, George Bakehouse
et al. Part 5 Physical aspects: evolution, emergence and synaesthesia, John
Gammack and Carolyn Begg; the body in the information system, Ian Beeson.