Start Date
11-8-2016
Description
Issue-based information systems (IBIS) were conceived in the early 1970s as a tool that lent discipline to a planning process in a public context marked by argumentation. Now, years later, I revisit IBIS and its philosophy and history and seek insight into its lessons. I find that whether argumentation can be disciplined as with IBIS is at its heart a never-ending story of the conflict between rationality and politics.
Recommended Citation
Swanson, Burt, "Recalling IBIS: Can Argumentation be Disciplined?" (2016). AMCIS 2016 Proceedings. 1.
https://aisel.aisnet.org/amcis2016/Phil/Presentations/1
Recalling IBIS: Can Argumentation be Disciplined?
Issue-based information systems (IBIS) were conceived in the early 1970s as a tool that lent discipline to a planning process in a public context marked by argumentation. Now, years later, I revisit IBIS and its philosophy and history and seek insight into its lessons. I find that whether argumentation can be disciplined as with IBIS is at its heart a never-ending story of the conflict between rationality and politics.
