This paper has discussed the massive analytic turning away from Hegel almost a century ago and the recent, more modest, incipient turn, or return as an offshoot of the turn to pragmatism in the wake of the analytic critique of classical empiricism. I have argued that analytic philosophy has misunderstood Hegel on both occasions"" (p. 368). In Floridi [2003c] I've tried to show the Idealis tic roots of the renaissance of epistemology between the two wars

More and better information is often seen as a prerequisite for better management practices. It is the task of information systems to collect or create such information. These simple premises are problematic, however. One of the reasons for this is that the very concept of information is not clear. This paper discusses the notion of information as well as the apparently opposing notions of misinformation and disinformation from a critical research perspective. Starting with a discussion of the question of truth, the paper argues that there is no agreement on what truth is and, therefore, what information is. The critical approach provides a different way of understanding these issues. Critical research aims to change the status quo and lead to emancipation. Drawing on two of the most prominent theoreticians of critical research, Jürgen Habermas and Michel Foucault, the paper explores what truth and information can mean for critical research. The contribution of the paper is to extend the debate on information and truth beyond its typical confines and show to the researcher that these issues are not value-neutral; every commitment to a research approach is a value choice that the researcher makes and needs to reflect on. Keywords: critical research in information systems, information, truth, Habermas, Foucault, emancipation

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Phenomenology is often thought to be irrelevant to artificial intelligence and cognitive science research because first-person descriptions do not reach to the level of genuine causal explanations. Though phenomenology taken in this weak sense may not be useful, the method of phenomenology taken more formally may well produce fruitful results. Husserl’s phenomenological reduction, or epoché, sets the right frame of reference for a science of cognition because it makes explicit the difference between what belongs to cognition and what belongs to the natural world. Isolating this critical difference helps us assign the correct procedures to cognition and describe their functions. A formalized phenomenology of cognition can therefore aid initiatives in cognitive computing.

Before we address the topic of “Information in Computer Science, ” it is obvious that we will have to say something about what is meant by “information. ” I expect this to be a common preoccupation of the many authors contributing to this volume. Though perhaps not as obvious, it turns out equally important that we should be clear what is meant by

Community of practice theory is inherently a social theory. As such it is distinct from more individualist accounts of human behavior, such as main-stream economics. It is, then, unsurprising that community of practice theory and economics tend to favor quite different accounts of knowledge. Taking a community of practice perspective, this paper challenges economists ' attempts to reduce knowledge to information and to reject tacit knowledge as no more than uncodified explicit knowledge. The essay argues that Polanyi's notion of a tacit dimension had a profound affect on numerous disciplines (including economics) because it addressed aspects of learning and identity that the conventional social sciences had overlooked. The paper situates the core of knowledge, identity, and learning within communities and points to ethical and epistemic entailments of community practice. So doing it attempts to limit, rather than expand, the scope of community of practice analysis and to stress the difference, rather than the commonalities, between this kind of analysis and other apparently congenial forms of social analysis.

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“I love information upon all subjects that come in my way, and especially upon those that are most important. ” Thus boldly declares Euphranor, one of the defenders of Christian faith in Berkley’s Alciphron. 1 Evidently, information has