2/ The ideas I spend my time on may cross a lot of disciplinary boundaries. And, I've used the word "interdisciplinary" in my dissertation, following everyone else's usage of it. But, it just feels like a lie.pic.twitter.com/9P6KKjxqgD
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2/ The ideas I spend my time on may cross a lot of disciplinary boundaries. And, I've used the word "interdisciplinary" in my dissertation, following everyone else's usage of it. But, it just feels like a lie.pic.twitter.com/9P6KKjxqgD
3/ Contemporary political science is faced with this all the time. Every new book (and my dissertation) quotes a lot from contemporary neurology while also drawing upon a lot sociology to make political science arguments.
4/ But, the level of familiarity with the subject matter needed to understand whether or not the parts your drawing on are good arguments generally instead of just fitting well with your theory requires... ...well, a disciplines worth of scholarship.
5/ One person can't do this. It's too much. (Kinda a dumb thing for a computational social scientist to say right before defense. But hopefully by saying that on here now, I won't be tempted to say it in response to someone's question in the near-then.)
I want to disagree. Consider my recent paper: https://twitter.com/kaznatcheev/status/1102973539634892800 … Would you call this not interdisciplinary? Why? I think interdisciplinary work is very hard, and we often fall short of it. Regardless of the composition of our team. But I want to imagine it is achievable.
So, I'm not going to defend my position too strongly because it's not that far from a hot take, but,https://twitter.com/generativist/status/1111777710102052864 …
The National Science Foundation dedicates resources to developing general engineers & scientists. Many architects describe themselves as generalists. Special operator are generalists. I'm a generalist. There are several occupations that are interdisciplinary.
As program manager of basic research, I funded principal investigators who could execute & communicate great science across disciplines. Seminal work speaks to many not to just hyper isolated specialists. Define a narrow discipline & research isn't basic anymore. It's applied.
Ehm, what if that single author is an expert in two or more fields?
They exist at after a certain stage of scholarship, maybe? Like, they need enough cross-collaboration I think to have a firm research program? (I wouldn't know though. I'm [still] but an egg.) Has this been your interdisciplinary experience?
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