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(2018) The structure of interdisciplinary science, Dordrecht, Springer.
In this chapter, the most dominant trends in contemporary studies of interdisciplinarity are outlined. The biases and inadequacies reflected in these efforts are a central part of the motivation for this book. An account is provided of the basic characteristics of interdisciplinarity which any analysis hereof must take into account. Further, the chapter includes an account of the developments of the interest in interdisciplinarity, and how interdisciplinarity has come to be occupy such a dominant position in science and science policy today. All in all, this chapter provides an overview of the phenomenon of interdisciplinarity and how it is usually treated academically.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-90872-4_3
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Hvidtfeldt, R. (2018). Interdisciplinarity studies, in The structure of interdisciplinary science, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 59-95.
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