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38The Production and Reinforcement of Ignorance in Collaborative Interdisciplinary ResearchSocial Epistemology 30 (5-6): 643-664. 2016.One way to articulate the promise of interdisciplinary research is in terms of the relationship between knowledge and ignorance. Disciplinary research yields deep knowledge of a circumscribed range of issues, but remains ignorant of those issues that stretch outside its purview. Because complex problems such as climate change do not respect disciplinary boundaries, disciplinary research responses to such problems are limited and partial. Interdisciplinary research responses, by contrast, integra…Read more
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Areas of Specialization
History of Western Philosophy |
Metaphysics and Epistemology |
Value Theory |