خلاصة:
The need for more serious attention to the epistemological foundations of library science forms the main axis of discussion in the present article. The definition and classification of knowledge from various aspects and types of epistemological approaches, such as social epistemology and the sociology of knowledge, as well as the ways in which knowledge is absorbed and utilized, are among the deep topics of interest to some experts in the library profession. The author's effort to justify a common epistemological foundation in all sciences, including library science, is presented as an interdisciplinary science. The article emphasizes that the cognition of professional specialists has a very significant impact on the approaches and functions of their profession in the social dimension.
ملخص الجهاز:
The new field under consideration here (and given the better name that Margaret Egan 1 gave to it, namely "social epistemology" 2 (8)) must be able to provide the necessary framework for researching the complex issue of the nature of the thought process in society: meaning, it should study the ways in which society achieves an intelligent relationship with its entire environment.
Although "social epistemology" should have its own body of theoretical knowledge, it must in fact be an interdisciplinary subject because it is dependent on many fields, such as sociology, anthropology, linguistics, economics, human neurophysiology, psychology, mathematics, and information theory (these are only a few specific examples).
If librarian bibliographic and information systems are to be organized in a way that is as close and consistent as possible to the applications of written knowledge by humans, the theoretical foundations of the profession must ultimately provide answers to the following questions: -- The problem of cognition: meaning the manner in which humans attain knowledge.
" Interestingly, the term knowledge as "that which is known" is understood by the distinguished scholars of the University of Illinois in Springfield only as that which society knows, and they describe it as follows: "The sum of that which is known, meaning the entire body of truth, reality, information, principles, or subjects of cognition that humans have acquired.
The structure of mental knowledge or mental image also carries a value system based on which certain types of information are assessed on the basis of specific scales of "goodness" or "badness" determined by the individual, organization, society, or culture.
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