Dominic Dixon

Social Epistemology as an Epistemological Foundation for Library and Information Science Despite its fundamental concern with knowledge acquisition and dissemination, Library and Information Science (LIS) lacks a clearly articulated epistemological foundation. This paper addresses two ...

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Social Epistemology as an Epistemological Foundation for Library and Information Science Despite its fundamental concern with knowledge acquisition and dissemination, Library and Information Science (LIS) lacks a clearly articulated epistemological foundation. This paper addresses two ...

New paper out in @socialepistemology.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/0269.... t offers a different angle on @floridi.bsky.social's view that SE is too prescriptive for LIS, arguing instead for a broad, integrated SE as an epistemological foundation and for seeing libraries as social epistemic systems.