Discursive March of Thought

Once shunned, interdisciplinarity has now become fashionable — but badly in need of unpacking. The transfer of ideas from one field to another requires full understanding of the ways in which they are used and understood, where they come from and where they are going.

This book calls attention to certain linguistic tools that served scholars in the past and that are still relevant today — if properly employed. It offers a roadmap that inter-relates problems within and between the sciences — human and natural. Spelling out how research may go beyond the mere assembly of facts, it invites the reader to join a sequence of steps that highlights the processes which problem solving entails.