How to achieve a unified theory of information

Authors

  • Wolfgang Hofkirchner ICT&S Center, University of Salzburg

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v7i2.114

Keywords:

Information Society, Two Cultures, Subject-Object-Dialectic, Ways of Thinking

Abstract

The paper deals with the necessity and feasibility of an integrated information theory. It develops guidelines for how to conceive of information in a way that avoids the pitfalls of certain ways of thinking like reductionism, projectivism or disjunctivism.

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Author Biography

  • Wolfgang Hofkirchner, ICT&S Center, University of Salzburg
    • Professor, Internet and Society, University of Salzburg; Associate Professor, Technology Assessment, Vienna University of Technology
    • Member, Board of Directors, and Chair, Science Advisory Committee, Science of Information Institute, Washington
    • Member, Foundations of Information Science Board, http://fis.icts.sbg.ac.at
    • President, Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science, Vienna
    • Editor, Unity Through Diversity Two, Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science Book Series, ISCE Publishing, Goodyear, Arizona
    • Member, Board, Institut für Design Science, München
    • Coordinator, icts and society network, http://www.icts-and-society.net
    • Research fields: Praxio-Onto-Epistemology, Evolutionary Systems Theory, Unified Theory of Information, Critical Social Systems Theory, Critical Design Theory, Critical Information Society Theory

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Published

2009-11-18

Issue

Vol. 7 No. 2 (2009)

Section

Special Issue: What is Really Information? An Interdisciplinary Approach.

License

tripleC is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal (ISSN: 1726-670X). All journal content, except where otherwise noted, is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 License.

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