On Transdisciplinarity
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چکیده
In my contribution on “Science as Utopia” at the Preparatory Meeting last year, I touched upon the concept of transdisciplinarity, pointing to the fact that research is moving beyond its disciplinary limits. Let me add a few remarks and observations to this concept. In the course of a long institutional route, our academic system has become disturbingly unfathomable.1 This is the case not only with regard to the ever accelerating growth of knowledge in all scientific fields, but also with regard to the organisational and institutional forms of academic research. There is an increasing particularisation of disciplines and fields; whereas the capacity to think disciplinarily – that is, in terms of larger theoretical units – is decreasing. Thus it is no surprise that there has been much talk about the desirability of interdisciplinarity, and this for some time now. Sitting alone on one’s disciplinary island, one is likely to be drawn to one’s mates on neighbouring islands, and it is perhaps not so important who these disciplinary neighbours are. The borders between fields and disciplines, to the extent that they are still observed at all, threaten to become less institutional borders than cognitive ones. And thus the concept of interdisciplinarity comes to include the notion of an improvement, which should lead in time to a new scientific and academic order. Interdisciplinarity is in consequence neither something normal, nor indeed something really new, nor simply the scientific
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