What is interdisciplinary communication? Reflections on the very idea of disciplinary integration
@article{Holbrook2012WhatII, title={What is interdisciplinary communication? Reflections on the very idea of disciplinary integration}, author={J. Britt Holbrook}, journal={Synthese}, year={2012}, volume={190}, pages={1865 - 1879} }
In this paper I attempt to answer the question: What is interdisciplinary communication? I attempt to answer this question, rather than what some might consider the ontologically prior question—what is interdisciplinarity (ID)?—for two reasons: (1) there is no generally agreed-upon definition of ID; and (2) one’s views regarding interdisciplinary communication have a normative relationship with one’s other views of ID, including one’s views of its very essence. I support these claims with…
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