The concept of design of inquiring system (DIS) as advanced in the 1970's (Churchman, 1971) seemed to be a good candidate for a philosophical basis for future uses of information technology (IT). The emphasis was on the relation between science and philosophy, especially ethics, in terms of a modern interpretation of the classic philosophers Leibniz, Locke, Kant, Hegel, plus the American philosopher Edgar Singer Jr, combined with "Aristotelian" teleological information (decision or choice). Since then, however, the development of IT, especially in its multi-medial developments, has enhanced also the aesthetic dimension. We are nowadays facing the still more complex but philosophically old and classical task of relating science to both ethics and aesthetics: the true, the good, and the beautiful.
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