Andrew Basden is Professor of Human Factors and Philosophy in Information Systems at the Salford Business School, at the University of Salford His academic interests lie right across most areas of information technology, from assembler language programming through to usefulness and long-term benefits and detrimental impact in society of information technology as well as the amiga computer. He is the author of A Philosophical Framework for Understanding Information Systems , Foundations of Information Systems (Routledge, 2018) and Foundations and Practice of Research: Adventures with Dooyeweerd (Routledge, 2020). He is married with two children and maintains the Dooyeweerd pages.
His personal web site is here. His full CV is here and a list of his publications is here.
There is an interview with Andrew here: part 1 and part 2.
On Basden:
Bishop, Steve 2020. Engaging and Enriching Non-Christian Thought: The Case of Andrew Basden. Pro Rege 48(4): 1- 8.
Available at: https://digitalcollections.dordt.edu/pro_rege/vol48/iss4/1
Articles
2021. The economy with climate and environmental responsibility [pdf]
2021. Rethinking economy in the light of Covid-19 [pdf]
2010. Towards lifeworld-orientated information systems development
2010. Diversity in Cognitive Models
2010. On Defining the IS Discipline by its Sphere of Meaning
2009. The Notion of Lifeworld Applied to Information Systems Research.
2009. On Using Spheres of Meaning to Define and Dignify the IS Discipline
2009. A Different Way of Approaching Data Models and KR Ontologies
2009. Practically Critical: Making the Critical Approach More Useful
2008.A slow journey towards Social Theory in information systems
2008.Understanding everyday experience and use of facebook and games
2007. Frameworks for understanding IS and ICT
2007. A brief overview of Dooyeweerd’s philosophy
2007. ‘Fresh light thrown on the Chinese room’.
2007. Information systems as a life-world
2005. Enriching humanist thought
2004. On Appealing to Philosophy in Information Systems
2003.Levels of guidance
2004. Emancipation as if it mattered
2003. with A. Trevor Wood-Harper 2003. A Philosophical Enrichment of CATWOE
2003. Enriching critical theory
2002. The critical theory of Herman Dooyeweerd?
2002. A Philosophical Underpinning For ISD
2001. A philosophical underpinning for IT evaluation
2001. Beyond emancipation
1999. On the ontological status of virtual environments
1991. A new framework for sustainability
Books
2020. Foundations and Practice of Research: Adventures with Dooyeweerd’s Philosophy. Routledge
2018. Foundations of Information Systems: Research and Practice. Routledge
2007. Philosophical Frameworks for Understanding Information Systems. IGI Publishing
ISBN-13: 978-1599040363
2006. Strijbos S, Basden A (eds). In Search of an Integrated Vision for Technology. New York: Springer, New York
ISBN-13: 978-0387321509
Andrew Basden on YouTube
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