摘要
信息主义是顺应信息时代对信息技术的重视进而对一般意义上的信息问题的关注而兴起的一种重要思潮,是对流行于当代社会的各个领域和层面的某些具有相似倾向的观点和学说的概括,是以信息为基点来阐释社会、人乃至整个世界的一种思想或学术倾向。主要包括技术—社会观层面的信息主义、世界观层面的信息主义和人本学信息主义,它们相互关联,从整体性构成一种信息主义的视界,即一种新的理论范式,从而回应了信息革命的深刻社会影响,反映了哲学的信息论转向及其与当代哲学的人本趋向的汇流。对信息主义的归纳和研究既可以深化我们对时代特征的把握,也可以开辟哲学创新的重要维度,展示人的发展的新疆界。当然在评价信息主义时,也需要防止“唯信息主义”或“信息万能论”之类的极端偏向。
Informationism is an important intellectual trend that has arisen from the focus on information technology in the information age and the subsequent attention to information in the general sense. It embraces views and theories with similar tendencies that are current in different spheres and at different levels of contemporary society and represents an intellectual or academic tendency to interpret society, human beings and even the whole world from the perspective of information. It mainly covers informationism at the level of technology-society views and philosophical and humanistic informationism. The different types of informationism are inter-related and constitute in their entirety a kind of informationist field of vision, that is, a new kind of theoretical paradigm. This responds to the profound social impact of the information revolution and reflects the change of direction in philosophical information theory and its convergence with the humanistic trend of modern philosophy. Research on informationism can not only deepen our understanding of the features of our era, but can open up important dimensions of philosophical innovation and set out new frontiers for human development. Of course, in evaluating informationism, we need to forestall extremist tendencies that ascribe everything to informationism and see it as all-powerful.
出处
《中国社会科学》
CSSCI
北大核心
2007年第2期68-77,共10页
Social Sciences in China
基金
广东省哲学社会科学规划项目(06C08)
