Bernd Frohmann

Bernd Frohmann (died 2026) was a Canadian philosopher and librarian.

Life

B.A., M.A., M.L.S., Ph.D. Acting Dean, Faculty of Information & Media Studies at Western University, London, Ontario, Canada, 1995-1997.

Deflating information : from science studies to documentation. Toronto University of Toronto Press, 2004.
Revisiting "what is a document? Journal of documentation 65, n 2 (2009):291-303.
Documentation redux: Prolegomenon to (another) philosophy of information: The Philosophy of Information. Library trends 52, n3 (2004):387-407. [1]
Multiplicity, materiality, and autonomous agency of documentation. pp 27-39 in A document (re)turn: contributions from a research field in transition, ed by Roswitha Skare and others. Frankfurt am Main ; New York : Peter Lang, 2007.
Documentary ethics, ontology, and politics. Archival Science 8, n3 (2008):165-180.
The power of images: a discourse analysis of the cognitive viewpoint. Journal of Documentation 48, n4 (1992):365-386
The documentality of Mme Briet’s antelope. In J. Packer & S. B. Crofts Wiley (Eds.), Communication matters: Materialist approaches to media, mobility and networks. (pp. 173–182). NY: Routledge, 2012.