:Analogies for Sustainable Development/Scientific disciplines and theories as islands in an Ivory Archipelago
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| Ivory Archipelago | Academia |
|---|---|
| Islands | Disciplines, schools of thought |
| Sea | Isolation, disconnect between disciplines |
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Wilson (2007)[1]:
"The Ivory Tower would be more aptly named the Ivory Archipelago. It consists of hundreds of isolated subjects, each divided into smaller subjects in an almost infinite progression. People are examined less with a microscope than with a kaleidoscope—psychology, anthropology, economics, political science, sociology, history, art, literature, philosophy, gender studies, ethnic studies. Each perspective has its own history and special assumptions. One person’s heresy is another’s commonplace."
Wilson (2012)[2]
“the Ivory Tower could be more aptly called the Ivory Archipelago—hundreds of disciplinary islands, each speaking a separate language, with minimal connections among islands.”
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- ↑ Wilson, D. S. (2007). Evolution for Everyone: How Darwin’s Theory Can Change the Way We Think About Our Lives. New York, NY, USA: Delacorte Press.
- ↑ Wilson, D. S. (2012). Consilience: Making contextual behavioral science part of the United Ivory Archipelago. Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science, 1(1–2), 39–42. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcbs.2012.09.005