Disciplinarian Thinking, Inter-Disciplinarity and Multi-Disciplinarity Revisited, with Complexity in Mind
Disciplinarian Thinking, Inter-Disciplinarity and Multi-Disciplinarity Revisited, with Complexity in Mind

Summary/Abstract: This paper discusses the concept of disciplinarian thinking (DT) in the context of inter and multi-disciplinarian (IDT and MDT) endeavors in Humanities and Social, Cultural and Political complex systems. It is shown that IDT and MDT cannot solve, as long as they are based on DT the problems posed by complexity. While moving from one discipline to another, whether we change or not the meaning of the concepts used, we conserve their single-valued character. Multi-disciplinarity, in the way defined here, turns out to be indeed a necessary tool for approaching complexity but it is by no means sufficient.

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