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Towards new epistemological foundations for information systems

1985; Wiley; Volume: 2; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1002/sres.3850020308

1099-1743

Jean Louis Le Moigne,

Information Systems Theories and Implementation

Abstract The practices used to design information systems reveal the weaknesses of present scientific theories which justify them (information theory, automata theory, cybernetic theory, mathematical logic, decision‐making theory). The study of a specific information processing science shows the acuteness of the contemporary crisis of epistemology, and the relevance of questions brought up by information theory and computation theory. Three promising areas of development to improve the quality of “practices” are discussed: An epistemology of a science of design, a development of research in logic (particularly deontic and self‐referential), and a systematic consideration of memorization processes, in order to integrate, in the modeling process, both the functions (synchronic) and the transformations (diachronic) of organizational information systems.