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Integrating Knowledge Through Interdisciplinary Research - Problems of Theory and Practice (Hardcover, New)
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Integrating Knowledge Through Interdisciplinary Research - Problems of Theory and Practice (Hardcover, New)
Series: Critical Realism: Interventions Routledge Critical Realism
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In this important new text, Holland seeks to explain, by means of
social scientific and philosophical inquiry, the difficulties that
researchers often experience when attempting to integrate knowledge
from different academic disciplines, either individually or as part
of a team of subject specialists. It is argued that the difficulty
of integrating knowledge from different academic disciplines is the
result of, firstly, an inadequate justification of the nature of
scientific integration and differentiation and, secondly, the
dominance of disciplinary specialization in scientific inquiry. By
focusing on both the theoretical justification for, and the
practical feasibility of, integrating knowledge through
interdisciplinary research, this book asks what properties of
reality make the integration of knowledge from different academic
disciplines possible and to what extent it is feasible to integrate
knowledge through interdisciplinary research within a traditional,
disciplinary context. Accordingly the text is both philosophical
and social scientific in content: philosophical in the sense that
it presents a theory of causal determination, which will help
researchers to understand how reality is both differentiated and
interconnected; social scientific in the sense that it presents the
results of three case studies of collaborative interdisciplinary
research projects. The book is heavily informed by the philosophy
of critical realism. The philosophical argument about the
possibility of integration and specialization in science draws
explicitly on some of the key concepts of critical realism -
particularly those comprising the theory of 'integrative pluralism'
- while critical realist assumptions underpin the social scientific
argument about the causal influence of the social system of
knowledge production. By exploring researchers' conceptions of
knowledge and of reality on the one hand and their decisions about
what sort of knowledge to produce on the other, Holland shows how
the difficulty of scientific integration is both a problem of
knowledge and a problem of knowledge production. This book is
essential reading for students and academics interested in the
emerging topic of knowledge integration and interdisciplinarity.
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