id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-15267 Hakken, David Philosophical Aspects of Information Systems. Eds. R. L. Winder, S. K. Probert, and I. A. Beeson. London; Bristol, Penn.: Taylor & Francis, 1997. 258p. $79.95 (ISBN 074807588). 1999-01-01 3 .pdf application/pdf 1930 101 49 Because humans are always already wrapped in meaning, we never interact with pure information: “Information systems is, therefore, a mis­ nomer. Among his points are questioning whether theoreti­ cal and practical work actually have much January 1999 to do with each other; the existence of what he calls “official views” of “infor­ mation” and “system”; questionable as­ sumptions underlying the official views that deserve closer attention (e.g., the world is well ordered and that IT systems operate in a stable environment); conse­ quences of these assumptions (“half­ baked systems cobbled together. . . cache/crl-15267.pdf txt/crl-15267.txt