A Reappraisal of Information Science

This chapter emphasizes the informaiionistic view of science, and especially of information science. The view accepts the scientifically based cumulative information base as the main goal for science, combining in a natural and balanced manner the theoretical aspiration for truth, the search for applied knowledge and emancipation from old, false conceptualizations. Its philosophical roots are in modified scientific realism and research empiricism (of information science) mainly in the context of a Nordic coeffort.