ANTHONY WILDEN AND DIALECTICAL INFORMATION

Abstract

This paper aims to address the problem of conceptual ambiguity of information to display and check the relevance of the theoretical contribution of the British researcher Anthony Wilden to information science, specifically regarding the concept of information. To do so, we examine the said author's work in the light of the dialectical method, from a brief literature review on the topic. As a result, this study shows that the dialectical epistemology is able to overcome limits of the scientific discourse, constrained by the analytic tradition, concluding that Wilden opens the way to build a theory of information that, at the same time, can meet the rigors of the scientific method and keep committed to social issues, wich is fundamental for an applied social science, such as information science.