Hossein Jorjani First publication: 2026 – 07 – 18 The diversification of scientific disciplines may profitably be compared, with appropriate caution, to the diversification of biological species. The analogy is structural rather than mechanistic. Scientific disciplines do not reproduce biologically, yet they undergo recognizable processes of divergence, partial isolation, specialization, hybridization, and, occasionally, convergence. TheContinue reading “Excursus 050 – On Scientific Growth”
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Excursus 047 – On the Growth of Fields of Expertise
Hossein Jorjani First publication: 2026 – 07 – 18 The history of knowledge is, in large measure, the history of intellectual differentiation. In antiquity, philosophy (philosophia) embraced nearly every systematic inquiry into nature, humanity, and society. Aristotle’s division of knowledge into theoretical, practical, and productive sciences established a broad framework from which later disciplines graduallyContinue reading “Excursus 047 – On the Growth of Fields of Expertise”
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