Emergent information : an unified theory of information framework / Wolfgang Hofkirchner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hofkirchner, Wolfgang, 1953-

Series:

World Scientific Series in Information Studies

World Scientific series in information studies ; 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Information resources management.

Information technology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (291 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

At the dawn of the information age, a proper understanding of information and how it relates to matter and energy is of utmost importance for the survival of civilisation. Yet, attempts to reconcile information concepts underlying science and technology with those en vogue in social science, humanities, and arts are rather rare. This book offers a new approach, departing from fragmented information concepts.Many academics refrain from undergoing unifications, as most undertakings are reductionistic. This book contends that it is the noble task of an as-yet-to-be-developed science of informatio

Contents:

Preface; Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures; Part 1 Towards a Science of Information; Chapter 1 The Dawn of a Science of Information; 1.1 In the Tower of Babel; 1.1.1 The rise and fall of ""information""; 1.1.2 At the chaos point; 1.1.2.1 Disciplinary attempts; The semantic information concept; The pragmatic information concept; 1.1.2.2 Transdisciplinary attempts; 1.2 After the Information Revolution is Before the Information Revolution; 1.3 Adding to the Critical Mass; 1.3.1 ""Normal science"" information studies aims, scope, and tools; 1.3.1.1 Technocracy versus ivory tower

1.3.1.2 Reification versus deconstruction1.3.1.3 Reductionism versus projectivism and disjunctivism; 1.3.2 A Science of Information paradigm; 1.3.2.1 Ensuring futurability; 1.3.2.2 Catching the ephemeral; 1.3.2.3 Taking the blind men's perspective; Part 2 Steps To a Unified Theory of Information; Chapter 2 A New Weltanschauung; 2.1 A New Philosophy; 2.1.1 A new way of thinking; 2.1.1.1 Reductionism; 2.1.1.2 Projectivism; 2.1.1.3 Disjunctivism; 2.1.1.4 Integrativism; 2.1.2 A new concept of practice-reality-method; 2.2 A New Cross-Disciplinary Paradigm; Chapter 3 Nudges

3.1 A Fresh Perspective on Human Strategies3.1.1 Practicism; 3.1.2 Utopianism, Romanticism; 3.1.3 Inactivism; 3.1.4 Deliberate activism; 3.2 Dealing with Complexity; 3.2.1 Cybernetics, informatics; 3.2.2 Magical thinking; 3.2.3 Laissez-faire; 3.2.4 Evolutionary Systems Design; Chapter 4 Chaosmic Metasystem Transitions and Suprasystem Hierarchies; 4.1 A Fresh Perspective on the Real World Image; 4.1.1 Preformationism, atomism; 4.1.2 Teleologism, holism; 4.1.3 Indeterminism; 4.1.4 Less-than-strict determinism; 4.2 At Home in Complexity; 4.2.1 Evolutionism, modularism; 4.2.1.1 Evolutionism

4.2.1.2 Modularism4.2.2 Creationism, structuralism/functionalism; 4.2.2.1 Creationism; 4.2.2.2 Structuralism, functionalism; 4.2.3 Spontaneism; 4.2.4 Evolutionary Systems Ontology; 4.2.4.1 Chaosmic complexity; 4.2.4.2 Emergent dynamics; 4.2.4.3 Contingent trajectories; 4.2.4.4 Path-dependent nestedness; Chapter 5 The Adjacent Necessary; 5.1 A Fresh Perspective on Comprehension; 5.1.1 Scientism; 5.1.2 Anthroposociomorphism; 5.1.3 Irrationalism; 5.1.4 Reflexive Rationalism; 5.2 Grasping Complexity; 5.2.1 Empiricism; 5.2.2 Cabalistics; 5.2.3 Narrativism; 5.2.4 Evolutionary Systems Methodology

Chapter 6 Objects are Subjects are Objects... Reflections in a Creative Universe6.1 Dissolving Capurro's Trilemma; 6.1.1 Synonymism; 6.1.2 Analogism; 6.1.3 Equivocalism; 6.1.4 Historical and logical conceptualism; 6.2 Emergent Information; 6.2.1 Evolutionary types of reflection: the Multi-Stage Model; 6.2.1.1 Pattern formation; 6.2.1.2 Code-making; 6.2.1.3 The constitution of sense; 6.2.2 Reflective systemic functions: the Triple-C Model; 6.2.2.1 Cognition; 6.2.2.2 Communication; 6.2.2.3 Co-operation; 6.2.3 The universe of information

6.2.3.1 Constructs for reality: from response to flexible response to reflexion

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-97147-X

981-4313-49-1

OCLC:

827210190