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(2018) The structure of interdisciplinary science, Dordrecht, Springer.
In this chapter, the most common ways of distinguishing between branches of science are criticised for focusing too narrowly on a few dimensions of a highly complex phenomenon. Some usually neglected aspects are pointed out, which are required for a more adequate account of disciplinarity. The complexity of disciplines, however, renders an adequate concept hereof more or less useless as the foundation for analyses of specific cases of interdisciplinarity. "Discipline" and related concepts are compared to the alternative "approach", which, it is argued, will serve us better as the basic unit of analyses of scientific crossbreeding. The thought that disciplines should be considered as bundles (of bundles) of approaches is discussed and some consequences are drawn.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-90872-4_2
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Hvidtfeldt, R. (2018). Disciplines and approaches, in The structure of interdisciplinary science, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 31-57.
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