当代情报学理论思潮:实用主义

Contemporary Information Science Thought:Pragmatism

哲学对情报学有重要意义,每一种情报学理论都有其相应的哲学基础。首先,分析了实用主义的概况,归纳了古典实用主义和新实用主义的主要哲学观点。其次,分析了实用主义在认识论上的一些主要观点,包括实用主义对知识、符号和意义的认识和理解,在分析这些观点的同时探讨了其对情报学概念和现象的影响,如信息的定义、信息过程、情报学研究方法等。最后,基于实用主义认识论构建了情报学理论的初步框架。

Philosophy has important significance to information science ,each information science has its relevant philosophical foundations.Firstly,analyzes the basic facts of pragmatism and generalizes main philosophical ideas of classical pragmatism and neopragmatism.Then,analyzes major epistemological perspectives of pragmatism including its understanding of knowledge,sign and meaning,at the same time discusses its impacts to the concepts and phenomena of information science,such as the definition of information,information process and research methodology,etc.At last,establishes a preliminary information conceptual framework based on epistemology of pragmatism.