Overview
- Presents an alternative approach to the analysis of interdisciplinarity
- Shows how and why philosophy is relevant to these issues
- Develops a representation based approach
- Considers the consequences of a representation-based approach
Part of the book series: New Directions in the Philosophy of Science (NDPS)
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This book presents a novel approach to the analysis of interdisciplinary science based on the contemporary philosophical literature on scientific representation. The basic motivation for developing this approach is that epistemic issues are insufficiently dealt with in the existing literature on interdisciplinarity. This means that when interdisciplinary science is praised (as it often is), it is far from clear to what extent this praise is merited – at least if one cares about various more or less standardised measures of scientific quality. To develop a more adequate way of capturing what is going on in interdisciplinary science, the author draws inspiration from the rich philosophical literature on modelling, idealisation, perspectivism, and scientific pluralism. The discussion hereof reveals a number of critical pitfalls related to transferring mathematical and conceptual tools between scientific contexts, which should be relevant and interesting for anyone actively engaged in funding, evaluating, or carrying out interdisciplinary science.
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About the author
Rolf Hvidtfeldt is a postdoctoral fellow at the Humanomics Research Centre, Aalborg University, Denmark. His research is mainly focused on the philosophies of science evaluation, scientific communication, and conflicts of perspective.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Structure of Interdisciplinary Science
Authors: Rolf Hvidtfeldt
Series Title: New Directions in the Philosophy of Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90872-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-90871-7Published: 11 July 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-08119-5Published: 19 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-90872-4Published: 25 June 2018
Series ISSN: 2947-6828
Series E-ISSN: 2947-6836
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 295
Topics: Philosophy of Science, Epistemology