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Introduction.
Thomas Dousa, Fidelia Ibekwe-Sanjuan
To cite this version:
Thomas Dousa, Fidelia Ibekwe-Sanjuan. Introduction.. Fidelia Ibekwe-SanJuan & Thomas Dousa. Theories of Information, Communication and Knowledge. A Multidisciplinary approach., Springer, pp.331, 2013, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science - Vol. 34, 978-94-007-6972-4. �10.1007/978-94-007-6973-1_1�. �hal-00857973�
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Chapter 1. Introduction
Thomas Dousa & Fidelia Ibekwe-SanJuan pages 1-21
This book addresses some of the key questions that scientists have been asking themselves for
centuries: what is knowledge? What is information? How do we know that we know
something? How do we construct meaning from the perceptions of things? And how do we
communicate this meaning to others—that is to say, inform them? Although no consensus
exists on a common definition of the concepts of information and communication, few can
reject the hypothesis that information – whether perceived as an « object » or as a « process »
- is a precondition for knowledge. Epistemology can be defined as the study of how we
know things in general—this is its primary signification in the anglophone world—or, more
specifically, as the study of how scientific knowledge is attained and validated—this is how it
is conceived in the francophone world. To adopt an epistemological stance is to commit
oneself to render an account of what constitutes knowledge or, in procedural terms, to render
an account of when one can claim to know something. An epistemological theory imposes
constraints on the interpretation of human cognitive interaction with the world. It goes
without saying that different epistemological theories will have more or less restrictive criteria
for distinguishing what constitutes knowledge from what is not. If information is a
precondition for knowledge acquisition, giving an account of how knowledge is acquired
should affect our understanding of information and communication as concepts.
While much has been written on the definition of these concepts, relatively few
researchers have sought to establish explicit links between differing theoretical conceptions of
them and the underlying epistemological stances. This is what this volume attempts to do. The
idea for this book came about as the result of a project funded by the French Institute of
Information and Communication Sciences on the epistemology of information and
communication and how it affects interdisciplinarity in scientific research. A colloquium was
organised within the framework of this project on the 8th April 2011 in Lyon
1which gathered
some of the leading specialists on the topic. The current book is a follow-up to the 2011
colloquium. It is a multidisciplinary exploration of how information and communication are
perceived in different disciplines and how this affects theories of knowledge. As editors of the
volume, we have endeavored to elicit viewpoints from a wide spectrum of disciplines and thus
offer readers a diverse but complementary set of studies covering a wide range of theories of
information, communication, and knowledge. We hope that the diversity of background of the
authors makes for a rich dialogue and so contributes to readers’ comprehension, and
appreciation, of these fundamental phenomena.
The rest of the Introduction at
http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-94-007-6973-1/page/1
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Acknowledgements.
The scientific editors are very grateful to the Institute des Sciences de la Communication
(ISCC
2) of the CNRS (The French National Center for Scientific Research) and its board of
directors (Dominique Wolton and Pascal Payez-Burgeon) for funding the EPICIC project
which created the initial framework under which the work undertaken in this book could be
gathered and then published. This book is a direct result of the EPICIC colloquium held in
Lyon (France) on 8 April 2011 and attended by many of the contributing authors. The
colloquium featured very high-level and though-provoking talks that formed the backbone of
some of the chapters of this book. We are grateful to the ISCC for having made it possible,
through the grant, to organize the colloquium and to invite such high-profile researchers.
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