Chapter 12. The pointer finger and the pilgrim shell
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Giovanni Scarafile
Abstract
One of the risks to the study of interdisciplinary dynamics is to limit the analysis to a description of the visible structures through which it is in action.
Indeed, there are a number of factors which, although invisible, may contribute to the success or failure of an interdisciplinary enterprise.
Through the examination of two case studies, I examine these implicit factors, which underlie the development of interdisciplinarity. In particular, the role of habits, identity factors and the very inadequacy of rational arguments are examined. In a dialectic between invisible and visible emerges the picture of a complex phenomenon to which Caravaggio’s Seven Works of Mercy alludes in the final part of the essay.
Abstract
One of the risks to the study of interdisciplinary dynamics is to limit the analysis to a description of the visible structures through which it is in action.
Indeed, there are a number of factors which, although invisible, may contribute to the success or failure of an interdisciplinary enterprise.
Through the examination of two case studies, I examine these implicit factors, which underlie the development of interdisciplinarity. In particular, the role of habits, identity factors and the very inadequacy of rational arguments are examined. In a dialectic between invisible and visible emerges the picture of a complex phenomenon to which Caravaggio’s Seven Works of Mercy alludes in the final part of the essay.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Introduction. Crossing borderlines 1
- Chapter 1. Controversies in public and private on-line communication 5
- Chapter 2. The Paks Pact 29
- Chapter 3. Particularist understanding of CSR marketing visual arguments 53
- Chapter 4. Cognitive science and the controversy of anthropogenic climate change 75
- Chapter 5. ELEna 95
- Chapter 6. What is the meaning of biodiversity? 115
- Chapter 7. Human evolution 133
- Chapter 8. A historical controversy about politeness and public argument 155
- Chapter 9. Husserl’s phenomenology of inner time-consciousness and enactivism 177
- Chapter 10. Controversial images 199
- Chapter 11. The role and the impact of interdisciplinarity on the relational models of intervention in the doctor-patient communication 217
- Chapter 12. The pointer finger and the pilgrim shell 235
- Chapter 13. Science and democracy 255
- About the contributors 269
- Index 277
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Introduction. Crossing borderlines 1
- Chapter 1. Controversies in public and private on-line communication 5
- Chapter 2. The Paks Pact 29
- Chapter 3. Particularist understanding of CSR marketing visual arguments 53
- Chapter 4. Cognitive science and the controversy of anthropogenic climate change 75
- Chapter 5. ELEna 95
- Chapter 6. What is the meaning of biodiversity? 115
- Chapter 7. Human evolution 133
- Chapter 8. A historical controversy about politeness and public argument 155
- Chapter 9. Husserl’s phenomenology of inner time-consciousness and enactivism 177
- Chapter 10. Controversial images 199
- Chapter 11. The role and the impact of interdisciplinarity on the relational models of intervention in the doctor-patient communication 217
- Chapter 12. The pointer finger and the pilgrim shell 235
- Chapter 13. Science and democracy 255
- About the contributors 269
- Index 277
