Как да избегнем еклектизма?

In this paper, I propose to show that the emergence of new paradigms and the closing gap between the human and the natural sciences imply a radical change in our conception of human phenomena. To clarify the nature of this change, as a starting point, I refer to the context of cognitive sciences as a confluence of many disciplines. I consider that knowledge construction is the more important point in all disciplines. The question of interdisciplinarity requires taking into consideration the complexity of the relationships between a discipline and its object. The distinction between the scientific object and the object of scientific knowledge is crucial, that is the latter imposes the task of probing into the relationship between man, life and society. Traditionally, learning from other disciplines, interaction between disciplines, and dialogue between all participants has seemed morally justified. It has long been recognized that no single discipline or methodology is sufficient to capture all the dimensions of complex phenomenа lying at the heart of humanness. In my view, there are two broad ways one can think about this question. One can approach it with the idea of the construction of a common scientific object, (common to all the participants), or with the idea of the construction of the methods and general unifying models. What sort of arguments can be made in favor of a common scientific object or of general unifying models? What aspects are universal, and what are open to variation? The answers to these questions require a re-conceptualization of interdisciplinary knowledge and of the boundaries of disciplines.