Pensamiento crítico y escéptico en la bibliotecología
| Main Author: | Muela-Meza, Zapopan Martín |
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| Format: | Proceeding PeerReviewed application/pdf |
| Bahasa: | es |
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Centro de Investigaciones en Ciencia de la Información, Escuela Interamericana de Bibliotecología, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia
, 2006
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http://eprints.rclis.org/11536/1/2006.Muela-Meza.ZM.Pens.critico.esceptico.bibliotecologia.pdf http://eprints.rclis.org/11536/ |
Daftar Isi:
- This paper ("Critical and skeptical thinking in Library and Information Science") is the opening lecture of the 1st International Conference on LIS Research: "Knowledge Management and Public Libraries" held at the Universidad de Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia on 8-10 November, 2006. An analysis and critique is made of a reduced sample of contemporary ideological deceits or deceiful ideologies in the research of Library and Information Science (the science of documental information, the Institutions of Documental Information –i.e. libraries--, the Professionals of Documental Information –i.e. librarians—that give service both theoretically and practically to the users of documental information such terms as they have been conceptualiazed by Rendón Rojas, 2005), through a critical and skeptical –sceptical—thought (Sagan, 1997). But no all types of deceits, but specifically those of an ideological kind executed by the dominant Alfas social classes against all the dominated ones (since the Betas until the Omegas with its corresponding hegemony or hierarchy of descendent domination) in general (Sagan and Druyan, 1992) and that have implications in society at large, and in the LIS field, in particular. Such deceits are communicated through arguments containing logical and rhetoric fallacies (Bowell y Kemp, 2002), and here they are employed as possible valid elements of analysis to be researched in LIS. The following fallacies were found: a) call on the authority, b) the common practice, c) to derive something that should be from a something that it is, d) selection of the observation, e) epistemic fallacy, and f) after this, then in consequence of this. According to the data obtained through the literature reviewed it could be observed these fallacies around the following examples of most representative ideological and pseudo-scientific deceits: 1) about the “primacy of practicism and pragmaticism against theory” in LIS research; 2) on the impregnation of LIS research with pseudo-science; 3) on the ideologies of the Information Society and/or Knowledge Society (ISKS); 4) on “social capital” and “human capital”; 5) on the commercialization, and marketing of the documental information in the ISKS; 6) on “knowledge and information as the generators of material wealth” in the ISKS; 7) on the “competition to find the most ancient origin of all the ISKS ideologies.” All of this intertwined all along the argumentation of the paper as to explain the concepts and ideas by this paper example. A kind of integral epistemology is proposed for LIS education, training, learning, students, faculty, professors, so that they can cover both the scientific and humanistic based on a critical and skeptical –sceptical—thought as complement for the hard core of LIS research and practice.