Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 35, No. 45.
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Date: 2021-05-26 12:59:43+00:00
From: Dr. Herbert Wender <drwender@aol.com>
Subject: Re: [Humanist] 35.43: interdisciplinary
Dear Dino,
Relatively nearby from my home office there is such a thing: "The Trier Center
for Digital Humanities| Kompetenzzentrum is a central scientific research
institution ofTrier University."
If I see it right, it was founded as a service center and has evolved to the
actual "research institute", possibly despite the cited self-descriptioon a so-
called 'An-Institut', i.e. an Institute *at *, not *of* the universitiy. An
earlier name of this instituion was "Kompetenzzentrum für elektronische
Erschließungs- und Publikationsverfahren in den Geisteswissenschaften", but in
English versions it was already named "Trier Center for Digital Humanities". If
I understand you correctly such an Institute stands for "a discipline in its
own right".
It seems that I was, as others with respect to 'interdisciplinary', mislead in
my interpretation of the term 'discipline', misleaded apparently by the
translation in the ToC of "Glottodidactica": "Basic and Referential Disciplines
/ Grundlagen- und Referenzwissenschaften".
To understand well your proposition of 'Institute for Humanities Computing'
(withour apostrophe after 'Humanitites'?): can I translate it into German
'...elektronische Datenverarbeitung in den Geisteswissenschaften'?
And obviously we have also different notions of 'transdisciplinary'. But I leave
this for another time; only to sharpen my own understanding: Statistics, for me,
is 'a discipline in its own right', with mathematics as at least a 'reference
discipline' (Referenzwissenschaft) if not a 'basic discipline'
(Grundlagenwissenschaft). Statistical methods are in transdisciplinary use, f.e.
in econometrics: "Econometrics is the application of statistical methods to
economic data in order to give empirical content to economic relationships"
(Wikipedia). Please correct me, if this is a misuse of 'transdisciplinary'.
Kind regards, Herbert
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Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 35, No. 43.
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[1] From: Dino Buzzetti <dino.buzzetti@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Humanist] 35.41: interdisciplinary (59)
[2] From: James Rovira <jamesrovira@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Humanist] 35.38: interdisciplinary (23)
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Date: 2021-05-25 23:23:22+00:00
From: Dino Buzzetti <dino.buzzetti@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Humanist] 35.41: interdisciplinary
Dear Herbert,
In response to your question, I am afraid that these days my answer
might sound somehow outdated, but my choice would be nonetheless
Institute for Humanities Computing
a denomination which insists on the unavoidable interdisciplinary
character of a field which is in and of itself a discipline in its own
right.
A further brief comment on the general discussion. By necessity,
there would be no *interdisciplinarity* without disciplines. Moreover,
interdisciplinarity is NOT *multidisciplinarity*, for that would be just a
juxtaposition of disciplines with no interaction, NOR *transdisciplinarity*
,
for there won't be disciplines and specific disciplinary competences
anymore.
Kind regards, -dino
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