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                                             May 01, 2021


From a review in _Science_ by Yael Peled of a book
by Harvey J Graff, "Undisciplining Knowledge" (2015)      _Science_
"Interdisciplinarity in the Twentieth Century"            October 9, 2015

Quoting (with my own re-formatting)
a list of "the historical and intellectual
forces that shaped interdisciplanarity":            "Interdisciplanarity" is
                                                    a name so bad I might've
    These include                                   come up with it.

        the tension between specialization
        and generalization;
                                                        POLYMATH
        the quest for epistemic unity
        and the danger of reductionism;

        the uneasy relationships
        between expertise and authority;

        and the complex links among

            research agendas,
            curriculum development, and
            expectations of practical applicability.


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