L'interdisciplinarité. Fiction de la recherche scientifique et réalité de sa gestion contemporaine

Jacques Hamel, Interdisciplinarity : The Fiction of Scientific Research and the Reality of Its Contemporary Management Interdisciplinarity in the social sciences, and especially in sociology, poses a number of questions. What is interdisciplinarity in relation to multidisciplinarity, to transdisciplinarity and to pluridisciplinarity ? Is interdisciplinarity derived from the definition of an object of study ? Can interdisciplinarity be achieved through the mediation of theory ? Does interdisciplinarity come from a methodology or a method ? Is interdisciplinarity revealed in the transition from explanation to action ? In the light of such questions, interdisciplinarity is a "theory" of theories of philosophical knowledge capable of explaining movements from one discipline to another, from one field of knowledge to another.Hamel Jacques. L'interdisciplinarité. Fiction de la recherche scientifique et réalité de sa gestion contemporaine. In: L'Homme et la société, N. 116, 1995. Les passions de la recherche (II) : L'allemagne revisitée. pp. 59-71