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Information Science as an Interscience
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Information Science as an Interscience

by Fanie de Beer
March 2015
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
156 pages
5h 57m
English
Chandos Publishing
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Towards the idea of information science as an interscience

The purpose of this chapter is to emphasise the role of the core aspect of the scientific endeavour that is fundamental to any good science but that is currently largely neglected, namely reflection, or the intellectual activity in science. The focus will be on the challenges posed by some contemporary situations and developments to the intellectual activities of the scientific endeavour. The assumption is that science is first and foremost an intellectual activity, an activity of thought. The question to be addressed then is: how do we, as information scientists, respond intellectually to what is happening in the world of information and knowledge development and work, given the context ...

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