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The Structure of Interdisciplinary Science
von: Rolf Hvidtfeldt
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018
ISBN: 9783319908724 , 309 Seiten
Format: PDF, OL
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Preis: 69,54 EUR
Series Editor’s Foreword
6
Preface
8
Contents
12
List of Figures
17
1: Introduction
18
The (Epistemic) Fundamentals of Interdisciplinarity
19
Interdisciplinarity Studies
22
My Alternative
22
Does Everybody Represent?
24
The Intermediate Layer
27
Tools, Algorithms, and Basic Assumptions
28
An Example
30
Why Engage in this Kind of Madness?
33
A Bit of Terminological Explication
34
Targets
37
Approaches
38
“Distance” and “Proximity”
39
Summing Up
40
References
46
2: Disciplines and Approaches
48
What are These Things Called ‘Disciplines’?
50
Distinctive Discussions of “Discipline”
52
Problems of Disciplinarity
52
Three Dimensions (Plus Some) of Disciplinarity
55
Social Aspects Only
56
Objects Only
57
Objects and Tools Combined
58
All Included?
60
Where Does This Leave Us?
60
Approaches
63
Approaches vs. Fields
66
Distance vs. Proximity Revisited
67
More on Temporality
69
Summing Up
70
References
72
3: Interdisciplinarity Studies
75
What is Interdisciplinarity?
77
Knowledge Generation and Integration
79
Interdisciplinarity is Not New
81
More Recent Developments: The Turn-Turn
83
Literature Studies
84
Psychoanalytic Literature Studies
85
A Different Approach
86
The Evolutionary Turn
87
The Neurological Turn
90
What is the Point?
94
More Reasonable Reasons for Interdisciplinarity
95
Specialisation vs. Integration
97
Three Modes of Integration
100
The Polymath Mode
100
The Social Mode
100
The Educational Mode
101
All of the Above
101
Science without a Core Set?
102
Degenerating Hard Core Sets
103
Summing Up
104
References
107
4: The Relevance of Philosophy
112
Relevant Philosophical Approaches to Interdisciplinarity
115
Kitcher’s Historical Perspective
115
Weisberg’s Vehicle Perspective
118
Pluralism and Representation
119
Summing Up
122
References
123
5: Representation
126
The Basics
128
Enter Ronald Giere
131
Constructive Realism
132
Perspectival Realism
135
The Expanded and Enriched X
138
Deflation
139
To Model (Mathematically) or Not to Model (At All)
141
The Propositions
144
Weisberg on Construal; Assignment; Fidelity
145
Use & Similarity
147
Summing Up
149
References
154
6: Pluralisms, Perspectives, and Potential Problems
158
Pluralism—What is It?
159
The Pluralisms
163
#1—Internal Pluralism
163
#2—External Pluralism
164
#3—Metaphysical (Nomological) Pluralism and CP-Clauses
164
#4—Epistemic (Representational) Pluralism
166
Perspectivism
167
Perspectives of Theory
170
Laws and Perspectives
173
Distortions
173
Idealisation
174
Relocational Idealisation
178
Approximation
179
Distortions of Scale
180
Simpson’s Distortions
181
Distortion of Variance
183
The Case of Operational Definition
189
Operational Definition Makes Its Way into Psychopathology
193
Current Problems Facing Operational Definition in Psychopathology
197
Final Remarks on OD?
199
Simpson’s Revisited
200
Summing Up
203
References
206
7: Representational Crossbreeding
212
The Simple Duplex
214
Social Integration
217
Target Integration
219
Targeting a Different Target by Means of the Same Approach?
221
Purpose Integration
221
Approach Integration
222
The Method
228
Transferring Vehicles
228
Inserting Elements of Approaches as Parts of Vehicles
230
Relocating Elements of the Intermediate Layer
231
Two Strategies
233
Strategy #1: De-idealisation
234
Strategy #2: Bold Conjectures
236
Summing Up
237
References
240
8: Phenomenology Imported with EASE
243
So, What is Psychiatry and Psychopathology?
246
What is Schizophrenia?
248
What is EASE, Then?
252
The NP2014 Approach
260
Parent Approaches?
261
How Distant are the Parent Approaches?
264
The Vehicle of the Integrated Approach
265
The Target
268
The Intermediate Layer
270
(1) The Importance of in-Depth Qualitative Analysis
270
(2) The Significance of Quantification
271
The Elements
271
Target Group Delimitations (Definitions/Algorithms)
272
Exclusion Criteria
273
Semi-structured Interviews, Expertise, and the Likert Scale
274
(1) Semi-structured Interview
274
(2) Specialists’ Categorisation
275
(3) The Likert Scale
276
Dichotomisation
277
Statistical Tools
279
The Vehicle
280
The Verdict
280
The Good News
285
What Causes the Problems?
286
To Do-List
287
Summing Up
289
References
293
9: Conclusion
297
A Brief Reflexive Moment
300
Future Opportunities
301
Index
303
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