Debating disciplinarity

Critical Inquiry

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 749-770

  Post, Robert ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 70349554366     PISSN: 00931896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/599580     Document Type: Review

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15. To transdisciplinarity, we might also add concerns with "multidisciplinarity" and "crossdisciplinarity" (Carl R. Hausman, "Introduction: Disciplinarity or Interdisciplinarity?" in Interdisciplinarity and Higher Education, p. 10)
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66. To define the humanities in terms of "a refusal of obedience" ("SC," p. 18)
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79. In the words of Arthur Lovejoy, one of the draftsmen of the "Declaration of Principles on Academic Freedom and Academic Tenure"
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81. The genre is of course widespread. See, for example, John R. Searle, "The Storm over the University,"
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88. See www.noindoctrination.org/
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93. University of California, Academic Personnel Manual, §010, www.ucop.edu/acadadv/ acadpers/apm/apm-010.pdf
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