Dear Moises, Guy, Stan---and colleagues,
I would not agree with the "silo" interpretation of scientific domains,
at least that's not the way Rosenbloom and many others (myself included)
understand them. See the reference mentioned below by Moises and my own
(Scientomics: An emergent perspective in knowledge organization. Pedro
C. Marijuán, Raquel del Moral and Jorge Navarro. /Knowledge
organization/ 2012, 39 (3), 153-164.) About the subsumption hierarchy
that Stan introduces, in what extent is it a relevant trait?
Compositionally, the main objects of those big sciences conform to it,
but the disciplines themselves? I doubt. Besides, along that view a new
form of reductionism creeps in: "everything from bit". Hierarchy between
domains? Just a look at the background map of the sciences in the figure
below, empirically obtained from citations, shows an amazing dispersion
and inter-penetration of disciplines between the four Great Domains.
There appear hundreds of disciplines in the figure but the overall
tallying may escalate to several thousands (between 5,000 and 10,000
depending on the criteria).
An interesting question: Why do we create such an astonishing number of
disciplines? Methodologically it is unclear that the creation, growth
and stagnation of disciplines respond to single logic criteria. Rather,
we have suggested a massive "social" communication between disciplines
that conduces to "recombination phenomena" of knowledge bodies among
them. For instance, influential bodies such as Euclidian geometry,
Newtonian mechanics, differential equations, genetics, and so on (and a
multitude of other minor modules), would have generated the history of
sciences, not only “developmentally” inside their own fields, but even
more “combinatorially”, propelling the multidisciplinary evolution and
cross-fertilization among scientific disciplines.
In the main track of the current discussion (It was nice hearing from
Koichiro!) we are establishing the boundaries or interfaces between the
nuclear information science and thermodynamics, but the relationship
with physics is far more complex, as we must establish the interfaces
with quantum information, physics of self-organization and emergence,
and with cosmological information too. It is impossible to mix together
all these discussions (as Terry remarked a few days ago concerning the
relationships with quantum information). In the extent to which some
of these particular discussions become particularly fertile, new fields
will emerge within the overlap of physics and information domains.
Some comments in Rosenbloom's book on the relationship between
information and computing are quite interesting for this discussion and
for interlocking with the main discussion track... but this message is
becoming too long.
All the best--Pedro
Moisés André Nisenbaum wrote:
Hi Guy.
It seams that you sent your message only to me :-)
I am forwarding now to FIS
By the way, "Domain Analisys" as in Knowledge Organization (Hjørland,
Birger. "Domain analysis in information science: eleven
approaches–traditional as well as innovative." Journal of
documentation 58.4 (2002): 422-462.) is also a good approach.
Best
Moises
2015-01-21 18:24 GMT-02:00 Guy A Hoelzer <hoel...@unr.edu
<mailto:hoel...@unr.edu>>:
Hi All,
“Domain” implies a kind of silo to me. Information science is
emerging with intensive interaction among people in a relatively
small community of colleagues, which is indeed silo-like even
though we generally see it as a deep layer of scientific inquiry
that can unite traditional domains. In other words, at least some
of us would like to see information science ultimately achieve
recognition as an higher order scientific enterprise within which
(all?) scientific domains are embedded. This hierarchical view is
nicely captured with Stan’s subsumptive hierarchy scheme:
{information science {physics {chemistry {biology {social
sciences}}}}}
Of course, this view also suggests that the scientific disciplines
within information science are not, or should not be, domains,
either. As an evolutionary biologist myself, that is exactly the
way I think about it. I would not say that biology exists outside
of chemistry or physics, and I see the social sciences as
specialized sub-disciplines of biology. The ‘domains of science’
illustration reveals a degree of isolation between the traditional
disciplines, but I think those boundaries are breaking down over
time and information science could help to speed up the
integration among disciplines. I, for one, think that would
represent scientific progress.
Cheers,
Guy
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On Jan 21, 2015, at 6:56 AM, Moisés André Nisenbaum
<moises.nisenb...@ifrj.edu.br
<mailto:moises.nisenb...@ifrj.edu.br>> wrote:
Pedro, this image is strongly related to my research.
My graduation and master degree was in Physics. But now I am in
IS world through PhD program of IBICT/UFRJ in Brazil.
As you, Jorge and Raquel said (Navarro, Moral, Marijuan, 2013),
IS is about to become one of four great scientific domains. Don't
you think that one of the greatest reasons of it is the (big)
interdisciplinar nature of IS? (Saracevic, 1995).
Interdisciplinarity is in IS's "DNA" :-)
I am investigating some aspects of interdisciplinarity between IS
and Natural Sciences (Physics, Chemistry and Biology) (inspired
by Capurros's work http://www.capurro.de/infoconcept.html).
Some questions of this research are: 1) why (or how) a natural
scientist enters in IS world? What are their motivations?; 2) how
strong this interdisciplinarity is? (inspired by Loet's works on
the theme - for example, Leydesdorff, Rafols (2011)); 4) How the
physical concepts of information are present in IS articles.
I believe that inside FIS I will find many answers to my
questions. By observation of Scientific Communication and
Bibliometrics and of course, if I have the opportunity, by
interviewing the members of FIS :-)
I can say that in only few weeks of FIS I already have learned a
lot :-)
Best,
Moises.
Navarro, J.; Moral, R; Marijuan, P; Uprising of the
Informational: Towards a New Way of Thinking In Information
Science. Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on
Philosophy of Information, Xi'an (2013)
Saracevic, Tefko. "Interdisciplinary nature of information
science." Ciência da informação 24.1 (1995): 36-41.
Leydesdorff, Loet, and Ismael Rafols. "Indicators of the
interdisciplinarity of journals: Diversity, centrality, and
citations." Journal of Informetrics 5.1 (2011): 87-100.
2015-01-19 10:19 GMT-02:00 Pedro C. Marijuan
<pcmarijuan.i...@aragon.es <mailto:pcmarijuan.i...@aragon.es>>:
Thanks Moises, here it is --in case the list server
suppresses the image again, the dropbox link below contains
the image too (at the end of the philoinfo paper, belonging
to the Proceedings of the Xian Conference, 2013). best ---Pedro
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/wslnk41c3lquc55/AADpm_U6xuhm6jHK0esyN-29a?dl=0
*<clip_image002.jpg>*
*Figure 1. The Four Great Domains of Science*. The graphic
shows the network of contemporary disciplines in the
background (following Bollen /et al/., 2009); while the
superimposed “four-leaf clover” represents the four great
scientific domains: physical, biological, social, and
informational.
Moisés André Nisenbaum wrote:
Hi, Pedro.
I didnt receive th image (Figure 1. The Four Great Domains
of Science)
Would you please send it again?
Thank you.
Moises
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