Theories of Information, Communication and Knowledge A Multidisciplinary Approach /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Ibekwe-SanJuan, Fidelia (Editor), Dousa, Thomas M. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 34
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Epistemology.; Philosophy and science.; Philosophy and social sciences.; Philosophy of Science.; Philosophy of the Social Sciences.

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? Although no consensus exists on a common definition of t...