Abstract
Based on Michel Foucault's description of how knowledge is created and Stephen Toulmin's philosophy of human understanding, this essay uncovers what it means for a branch of knowledge to be a discipline. This deconstruction explains certain disciplinary misconceptions existing within the IS field and addresses the field's disciplinary status. Although the findings suggest that the IS field does not yet qualify as a discipline in its own right, they show that as soon as the members of the IS field can reconstitute the field's meta-theoretical structure and scholarly content, it is certainly capable of reaching that status.
Original language | English (US) |
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Title of host publication | ICIS 2006 Proceedings - Twenty-Seventh International Conference on Information Systems |
Pages | 425-440 |
Number of pages | 16 |
State | Published - Dec 1 2006 |
Event | 27th International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2006 - Milwaukee, WI, United States Duration: Dec 10 2006 → Dec 13 2006 |
Other
Other | 27th International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2006 |
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Country/Territory | United States |
City | Milwaukee, WI |
Period | 12/10/06 → 12/13/06 |
Keywords
- Archeology of knowledge
- Disciplinary status
- Foucault
- IS discipline
- IS theory
- Philosophical foundations of IS
- Toulmin