Hi Bob, One of the classic studies:
*The study of information: interdisciplinary messages* Editors:Fritz Machlup <http://dl.acm.org/author_page.cfm?id=81100466573&coll=DL&dl=ACM&trk=0&cfid=677888792&cftoken=53847757>Una Mansfield <http://dl.acm.org/author_page.cfm?id=81100259106&coll=DL&dl=ACM&trk=0&cfid=677888792&cftoken=53847757>Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ <http://dl.acm.org/inst_page.cfm?id=60003269&CFID=677888792&CFTOKEN=53847757> Publication:· BookThe study of information: interdisciplinary messages <http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2578&picked=prox&preflayout=tabs>John Wiley & Sons, Inc. New York, NY, USA ©1983 table of contents <http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2578&picked=prox&cfid=677888792&cftoken=53847757> ISBN:0-471-88717-X Regards, Ken On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 9:24 AM, Bob Logan <lo...@physics.utoronto.ca> wrote: > Dear Colleagues - I have been reading the posts in this thread and > enjoying the conversation. I started playing with the notion of discipline > and came up with these undisciplined playful thoughts which I believe > provide an interesting or at least an alternative perspective on the notion > of a discipline. A discipline is a tool, a way of organizing ideas that > result from scientific inquiry or any other form of scholarly activity and > even artistic activity. Now every tool provides both service and > disservice. All of the posts so far have dealt with the service of > discipline. Here are some thoughts about the possible disservice of > discipline. Please take the following with a grain of salt. I believe the > notion of a discipline is anti-thetical to scientific inquiry in the sense > that it confines ones thinking to the confines of a discipline. One should > not be disciplined by a discipline but be free to go beyond the boundaries > of that discipline. Note that the root of the word discipline is disciple. > If one is to be free to explore new ideas and new phenomena one should not > be a disciple of the scientists or thinkers that created a discipline. Now > I am not saying that learning a discipline is a bad thing as it provides a > solid training and an understanding of how a set of principles describes > certain phenomena. It is a model of how a scientific, scholarly or artistic > practice can be carried out. As long as one does not become a disciple of > one's discipline or disciplines they can be very useful for creating a new > discipline or going beyond ones discipline. Perhaps the notion of > trans-disciplinary is not such a bad notion if one thinks of trans as > beyond. > > >
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