The case for breaking out of your academic box
Alan Love, philosopher and Director of the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Minnesota, makes the historical case for why academic disciplines exist — and why they’ve outlasted their original purpose. Drawing on figures from Newton to Darwin to the Vienna Circle, Love traces how disciplinary structure was built to coordinate a growing scientific community, not to map…
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