Guest editors: C. West Churchman (Advisory Editor), James Courtney and G. Larry Sanders
1. Introduction to Second Special Issue on
Philosophical Reasoning in Information Systems Research
C. West Churchman, University
of California at Berkeley
James F. Courtney, University
of Central Florida
G. Lawrence Sanders, State
University of New York at Buffalo
2. Feminist Philosophy and Information
Systems
Alison Adam and Helen
Richardson,
University of Salford
3. Some Observations on the Semantics of
“Information”
Julian Newman, Glasgow
Caledonian
University
4. Understanding the Philosophical
Underpinnings
of Software Engineering Research in Information Systems
Dawn G. Gregg, Arizona State
University West
Uday R. Kulkarni and Ajay
S. Vinzé, Arizona State University
5. A Philosophy of Information Technology
and
Systems (IT & S) as Tools: Tool Development Context, Associated
Skills
and the Global Technology Transfer (GTT) Process
Deborah Bunker, University
of New South Wales
6. The Philosophy of Critical Realism – an
Opportunity for Information Systems Research
Philip J. Dobson, Edith Cowan
University
7. Developing Intrinsically Motivated
Information
Systems A Critical Systems Approach
Petros Panagiotidis and John
S. Edwards, Aston University
8. Effective Knowledge Management:
Knowledge,
Thinking and The Personal-Corporate Knowledge Nexus Problem
Steve Benson and Craig
Standing,
Edith Cowan University
9. Rationality in Information Systems
Support
to Decision Making
David L. Olson, Texas A&M
University
10. Information Systems Knowledge:
Foundations,
Definitions, and Applications
Lee A. Freeman, The
University
of Michigan – Dearborn
11. A Philosophical
Approach to the Concept of Data Model: Is a Data Model, in Fact, a
Model?
Esperanza Marcos, Rey Juan Carlos University, Spain
Alfredo Marcos, Valladolid University, Spain