"Nowadays, the forms assumed by knowledge indicate an unhinging of traditional structures conceived on the model of discipline. Consequently, what was once strictly disciplinary becomes interdisciplinary, what was homogeneous becomes heterogeneous and what was hierarchical becomes heterarchical. When we look for a matrix of interdisciplinarity, that is to say, a primary basis or an essential dimension of all the complex phenomena we are surrounded by, we see the need to break with the disciplinary self-restraint in which, often completely inadvertently, many of us lock ourselves up, remaining anchored to our own competences, ignoring what goes beyond our own sphere of reference. However, interdisciplinarity is still a vague concept and a much demanding practice. It presupposes the continuous search for convergent theoretical perspectives and methodologies, and the definition of common spaces and languages, as well as a true dialogical and open mind of several scholars. From ethics to science, from communication to medicine, from climate change to human evolution the volume Controversies and Interdisciplinarity offers a series of original insights beyond disciplinary fragmentation for a new knowledge model"--.

• Controversies and Interdisciplinarity
• Editorial page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Table of contents
• Introduction. Crossing borderlines: Beyond the structure of parallel world views
  • References
• 1. Controversies in public and private on-line communication
  • Introduction
  • Background
    • Interdisciplinarity
    • Team
    • Gamification
    • Graph theory
    • Case study
    • Festival and mobile app
    • Gamification logics and on-line community
    • The rise of controversies: Working hypotheses
  • Methodology
    • Data collection
    • The capture of controversy
    • Data analysis
    • Main findings
  • Discussions
  • Limitations and further research
  • Conclusions
  • Funding
  • References
  • Appendix A. FolkTure IT architecture
• 2. The Paks Pact: ‘Topoi’ in Hungarian nuclear energy discourse
  • Introduction
  • The timeline of Paks II
  • Research design
    • 1. Research material
    • 2. Research methodology
      • 2.1 ‘Topos’ theory
      • 2.2 ‘Topos’ analysis
  • Results
    • 1. List of ‘topoi’
    • 2. Frequency of ‘topoi’
      • 2.1 The Hungarian Government
      • 2.2 LMP
      • 2.3 Greenpace
      • 2.4 Energy Club
    • 3. Call to action
  • Conclusion
  • Discussion
  • References
• 3. Particularist understanding of CSR marketing visual arguments: An applied multidisciplinary approach
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The tradition of visual argumentation
  • 3. Broad summary of generalism
  • 4. Broad summary of particularism
  • 5. Further thoughts
  • 6. Conclusion
  • References
• 4. Cognitive science and the controversy of anthropogenic climate change
  • Cognitive Science as a framework for the controversy of anthropogenic climate change (ACC)
  • ACC – a complex scientific problem on various spatio-temporal scales
  • ACC – a complex societal problem
  • The controversy of ACC
  • A mechanistic explanation of global warming
  • Belief polarization and ACC denial
  • (Collective) virtue epistemology and Mandevillian intelligence
  • Mechanisms of attaining collective epistemic virtues
  • Collective virtues of distrust, dogmatism, and cognitive bias
    • Distrust
    • Dogmatism
    • Cognitive bias
  • A cognitive meta-principle: The stability-plasticity dilemma
  • Convergence in the ACC controversy
  • The virtue and vice of levels (of argumentation)
  • Conclusion
  • Outstanding questions
    • Actual impact of an interdisciplinary perspective on ACC
    • The stability-plasticity dilemma in relation to society
    • Mandevillian intelligence
    • Boundary conditions of mandevillian intelligence
    • ACC and sustainable development
  • References
• 5. ELEna: An interdisciplinary research
  • 1. Introduction and motivation
    • 1.1 The context
  • 2. The technological, methodological and linguistic framework
    • 2.1 Communicative competence and dialogues
    • 2.2 Open domain dialogue systems challenges and difficulties
  • 3. Research challenges
  • 4. Controversies and interdisciplinary work
  • 5. How to move forward
  • References
• 6. What is the meaning of biodiversity? A pragmatist approach to an intrinsically interdisciplinary concept
  • 1. The traditional approach to biodiversity
  • 2. Pragmatist epistemology and the rejection of the copy theory of knowledge
  • 3. How to make biodiversity clear: Pragmatic maxim and the meaning of scientific concepts
  • 4. Conclusion
  • References
• 7. Human evolution: A role for culture?
  • Dichotomization
    • 1. Culture as superorganic
      • Concepts of culture
  • De-dichotomization
    • 2. Gene-culture coevolution
    • 3. Biosocial evolution
      • Philosophers of Biology are implicated in the debate
      • Final remarks
  • References
• 8. A historical controversy about politeness and public argument: The dispute about fashion between Melchiorre Gioja and Antonio Rosmini
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Theoretical premise
    • 2.1 Controversies and argumentation
    • 2.2 Argumentation analysis: Analytical overview and inferential configuration
    • 2.3 The meta dimension of a controversy and its relationship with politeness
  • 3. The controversy between Gioja and Rosmini about fashion
    • 3.1 The development of the conflict
    • 3.2 The first part of the controversy: Rosmini dissecting the ‘Apology of Fashion’
      • 3.2.1 Gioja’s ‘Apology of Fashion’ and Rosmini’s confutation
      • 3.2.2 Gioja’s ‘Answer to the Ostrogoths’
    • 3.3 The second part of the controversy: The meta level and the public dimension
      • 3.3.1 The ‘Writers’ galateo’: ‘Pars destruens’ and ‘pars costruens’
  • 4. The non-conclusion of the controversy
  • References
• 9. Husserl’s phenomenology of inner time-consciousness and enactivism: The harmonizing argument
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Discussion and controversy
  • 3. The harmonizing argument
  • 4. The intentional approach to the specious present
  • 5. Temporal objects and temporal experiences
  • 6. Absolute subjectivity
  • 7. The main two steps of the enactivists’ harmonizing argument
  • 8. Prereflective self-awareness
  • 9. The living present
  • 10. Absolute subjectivity and non-linear dynamical systems
  • 11. Is it possible to naturalize Husserlian phenomenology?
  • 12. The positive outcomes of the harmonizing argument
  • References
• 10. Controversial images: ‘Listening to’ the visual, for a new communication ethics
  • Foreword: The power and limits of ‘controversial’ images
  • The inter-disciplinary and synesthetic dimensions of visual communication
  • The contro-versial dimension of the visual, and opinion-forming
  • Medial caesurae and controversies from, and in, the visual
  • Conclusions: ‘Listening to’ images, for a ‘controversial’ ethics of the visual
  • References
• 11. The role and the impact of interdisciplinarity on the relational models of intervention in the doctor-patient communication
  • 1. Introduction: What is communication
  • 2. Silence and ethics of communication
  • 3. The therapeutic communication
  • 4. A troubled history
  • 5. Introducing burnout
  • 6. Ethics of care and interdisciplinarity
  • 7. Conclusions
  • References
• 12. The pointer finger and the pilgrim shell: Ethics of listening, resistance to change and interdisciplinarity
  • 1. Beyond theoreticism: Research perspectives on interdisciplinarity
    • 1.1 The “I don’t know what they represent, but I’m against them” syndrome
      • 1.1.1 Lack of knowledge of the basic nature of other disciplines
      • 1.1.2 Lack of an effective mechanism for communication between disciplines
      • 1.1.3 Lack of an adequate medium of exchange of information among disciplines
      • 1.1.4 Improper allocation or channeling of funds
      • 1.1.5 Personal and interpersonal problems
    • 1.2 Make interdisciplinarity work
  • 2. The human factor and change
    • 2.1 Aware and unconscious resistance: The role of reframing
      • 2.1.1 Insufficiency of rational arguments
      • 2.1.2 Change and identity
      • 2.1.3 The role of habits
      • 2.1.4 Role of best practices
      • 2.1.5 Threshold guardians
  • 3. Existing inside the maps: Connection and visibility
    • 3.1 Existing outside the maps: Invisibility and connection
  • 4. Conclusion: The pointer finger and the pilgrim shell
  • References
• 13. Science and democracy: A complex relationship
  • References
• About the contributors
• Index