How to achieve a unified theory of information

Wolfgang Hofkirchner

doi:10.31269/triplec.v7i2.114

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.

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