Real interdisciplinarity would bridge the quantitative-qualitative divide

Funders and administrators regularly praise the benefits of cross-departmental research, yet damaging schisms remain, says Jonathan Goodman

Published on
June 18, 2023
Last updated
June 18, 2023
People shout at each other from difference icebergs, symbolising methodological differences
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This essay is at least two decades out of date. In his graduate studies, did he not read the landmark works of Jerry Jacobs, In Defense of Disciplines; Elijah Millgram, The Great Endarkenment, and my own Undisciplining Knowledge? A sociologist, a philosopher, and a social science historian. Is he not aware that he shifts without any acknowledgement between inter- and cross-disciplinarity? They are not the same. These books were published between 2013 and 2016. They are not "old." On the other hand, where is Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions?

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