This proposal is a continuation of five years of seminars, panels, conference sessions, and most recently, a very successful mini-track at the 1996 AIS conference in Phoenix, Arizona. Over 80 people attend the panel discussion.
Philosophy is an establish and vast field, as compared to our fledgling area of information systems.
Over the years a host of others have relied on philosophy as a reference discipline. This mini-track is founded on the belief that we have hardly begun to tap the potential of philosophy in our work, especially in developing a more robust foundation for what we do. The continuing explosion of information technology in forms such as the World Wide Web and commercial information services is leading to an intrusion of information technology into our personal and business lives at a scope only imagined just a few years ago. Understanding and managing the implications of this technology seems to be a vital issue, not only for scholars of IS, but for human kind as a whole. It seems appropriate that we turn to philosophy as away of understanding these issues.