This ground-breaking book represents the work of a variety of researchers in information systems that share a common concern to use philosophical approaches to help solve problems in information systems. It brings together many of the leading researchers in the field and provides a broad-based range of chapters addressing key contemporary issues in the field. It looks at philosophical and social implications of the development of IS, relates these issues to the role IS plays in contemporary business and cultural theory, and discussed IS in a social and philosophical context, rather than simply as technology.
Foreword ix(2) Guy Fitzgerald Preface xi Stephen K. Probert Russel Winder Ian A. Beeson Ethical and Political Issues 1(58) Introduction 3(4) Stephen K. Probert Some Philosophical and Logical Aspects of Information Systems 7(16) Fenton F. Robb Implications of Regarding Information as Meaningful Rather Than Factual 23(12) Norma Romm The Tool Perspective on Information Systems Design: What Heideggers Philosophy Cant Do 35(16) Martin W. J. Spaul Thoughts Towards a Framework for Critical Practice 51(8) Anne Moggridge Language and Meaning 59(48) Introduction 61(4) Stephen K. Probert Patterns on Glass: The Language Games of Information 65(8) Jim Gilligan The Nature of Information and its Relationship to Meaning 73(12) John Mingers Mapping Information Systems on to the Real World 85(10) Frank H. Gregory Organic Information for the Organic Organization? An Application of the Work of Talcott Parsons to Information Systems 95(12) Richard Kamm Methodology 107(50) Introduction 109(4) Stephen K. Probert Ian A. Beeson Backing into Philosophy via Information Systems 113(4) Brian Petheram Software Engineering as a Kuhnian Discipline 117(14) Paul Wernick Russel Winder The Metaphysical Assumptions of the (Main) Soft Systems Methodology Advocates 131(20) Stephen K. Probert Towards a Paradigm of Information System 151(6) Marcus Lynch Organizational Issues 157(44) Introduction 159(2) Ian A. Beeson Sustainable Information Systems in Community Organizations 161(14) Nick Plant A New Philosophy, a New Agenda: Introducing Information Systems into Complex Organizations 175(6) Stuart Maguire Anthropological Reflections on Systems Engineering: Seeing is Believing 181(20) George Bakehouse Chris Davis Kevin Doyle Sam Waters Physical Issues 201(24) Introduction 203(2) Ian A. Beeson Stephen K. Probert Evolution, Emergence and Synaesthesia 205(10) John G. Gammack Carolyn E. Begg The Body in the Information System 215(10) Ian A. Beeson Bibliography and Indexes 225 Bibliography 227(20) Author Contact Details 247(4) Keyword Index 251
R L Winder, S K Probert, I. A. Beeson
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