Aspectos epistemológicos da ciência da informação: a transcendência da teoria crítica de habermas e os paradigmas da ciência da informação

Abstract

This research aims to understand the paradigms of Information Science (IS) through the critical theory of Jürgen Habermas, searching through the interpretative signs some clues to the epistemological uncertainties of these paradigms from a historical-hermeneutic point of view. The objective of this study is to investigate the paradigms of IS identified by Capurro under the historical-hermeneutic perspective and the dialogue with the critical theory of Habermas in order to offer a more critical perception of these paradigms. In the methodological approach we reviewed the theoretical research, with the aid of the bibliographic basis hermeneutics. The results show that within the paradigms of information, the emancipatory studies can be employed through a communicative action. Finally, we must think in the grounds taken as true in IS and Librarianship in a way to think of a necessary reform to rebuild the settled paradigms of IS.