Philosophy of data: Why?

Issue title: Philosophy of Information

Guest editors: Jesse David Dinneen

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Furner, Jonathan

Affiliations: Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, 300 Young Dr N, Mailbox 951520, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1520, USA. Tel.: +1 310 825 5210; Fax: +1 310 206 4460; E-mail: jfurner@ucla.edu

Abstract: Philosophy of data should not be dismissed as a cluster of scholastic puzzles whose solutions are of limited practical value. On the contrary, philosophy of data should be recognized as constituting the core of a field of data studies that is informed by, but far from equivalent to, statistics, computer science, and library and information studies.

Keywords: Data, philosophy of data, philosophy of information

DOI: 10.3233/EFI-170986

Journal: Education for Information, vol. 33, no. 1, pp. 55-70, 2017