The division of cognitive labor and the structure of interdisciplinary problems.
Interdisciplinarity is strongly promoted in science policy across the world. It is seen as a necessary condition for providing practical solutions to many pressing complex problems for which no single disciplinary approach is adequate alone. In this article we model multi- and interdisciplinary rese...
| Publicado en: | Synthese Vol. 201; no. 6; pp. 1 - 21 |
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Jun2023
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