Hossein Jorjani First publication: 2026 – 09 – 20 Modern science is divided into increasingly specialized fields. A scientist may spend decades acquiring intimate knowledge of a relatively narrow area while knowing little more than an educated outsider about many others. This is not necessarily a defect. Specialization is one of the conditions that makesContinue reading “Excursus 147 — On Viewing Science from Different Sides”
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Excursus 142 — On the One Ring of Epistemology
Hossein Jorjani First publication: 2026 – 09 – 12 “One Ring to rule them all.” The danger described by this familiar image is not confined to political power. Something similar can happen in the organization of knowledge. An explanatory concept, method, or framework may gradually acquire such broad ambitions that it seeks to become theContinue reading “Excursus 142 — On the One Ring of Epistemology”
Excursus 135 – On Interdisciplinary Brainstorming and the Responsibility to Listen
Hossein Jorjani First publication: 2026 – 08 – 08 Academic disciplines develop specialized concepts, methods, and standards of evidence because they study different objects and ask different questions. Such specialization is necessary, but it may also encourage the belief that an observation originating outside a discipline cannot be relevant until it has already been translatedContinue reading “Excursus 135 – On Interdisciplinary Brainstorming and the Responsibility to Listen”
