A Concept of Building a Glossary on Information Technologies Based on the Principles of Philosophy of Technics
Abstract
The article describes the concept of building an explanatory dictionary on Information Technologies based on the anthropological principles of Philosophy of Technics. This field of philosophical research deals with understanding the nature of technology and technics, and assesses its impact on the Society, the Culture and the Man. The importance of such an approach is dictated by the increasing destructive impacts that the Fourth Industrial Revolution made on the development of many scientific fields. Moreover, these disastrous consequences affect social structures associated with the upbringing of the new generation of the Russians, their education, the search for guidelines in their future professional activities, and the formation of the civic identity, which is the basis of the holistic personality.
A certain kind of modern IT glossaries limitation is their purely technical nature, which met the needs of the information society at the stage when it was being formed. However, when IT were developing, there were growing both positive trends and a negative effect of new means of communication on people. Along with these factors there appeared increasingly used concepts that reflected on the one hand, new directions of IT development and the related problems, and, on the other hand, the humanitarian aspects of “human-machine” interaction began to arise. As a rule, these terms are not represented in dictionaries, which is the reason why they can be ambiguously interpreted, inadequately understood, and often incorrectly used.
In connection with these factors, there is a need to create a “problem-oriented” glossary on IT, reflecting unresolved or not fully defined problems of both technological and humanitarian (anthropological and axiological) properties and built on the semiotic principles. The latter are based on the three postulates of the Semiosphere that states the guidelines of how humans must interact with new technologies. The postulates highlighted by a Soviet scientist Yuri Lotman include overlapping language codes, a clear plot of behaviour and a cooperative problematic field of intellectual activities.
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