Recommended Reading

Baggini, Julian, and Peter S. Fosl. The Philosopher’s Toolkit: A Compendium of Philosophical Concepts and Methods. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing 2003.

Becher, Tony, and Paul R. Trowler. Academic Tribes and Territories: Intellectual Enquiry and the Culture of Disciplines. 2nd ed. Philadelphia: The Society for Research into Higher Education & Open University Press, 1996.

Budd, John. “Jesse Shera, Social Epistemology, and Praxis” Social Epistemology 16 (January 2002): 93-98.

Budd, John. Knowledge and Knowing in Library and Information Science: A Philosophical Framework. Lanham, MD:Scarecrow Press. 2001.

Capurro, Rafael. “Hermeneutics and the Phenomenon of Information.” Metaphysics, Epistemology, and Technology. Ed. Carl Mitcham. Vol. 19. Research in Philosophy and Technology: JAI/Elsevier Inc., 2000.

Fallis, Don. “Social Epistemology and Information Science” Annual Review of Information Science and Technology 40 (2006) 475-519.

Kuhn, Thomas S. The Structure of Scientific Revolution. 3rd ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.

Lakoff, George.  Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal About the Mind. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987.

Lyotard, Jean-François. The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge. Trans. Geoff Bennington and Brian Massumi. Theory and History of Literature. Eds. Wlad Godzich and Jochen Schulte-Sasse. Vol. 10. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1984.

Nissani, Moti. “Ten Cheers for Interdisciplinarity: The Case for Interdisciplinary Knowledge and Research.” Social Science Journal 34.2 (1997): 201.

Machlup, Fritz. (1962). The Production and Distribution of Knowledge in the United States. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Searle, John R. The Construction of Social Reality. New York: Free Press, 1995.