Description

• Title:
  Empersonal Research Practices: Getting to Know Our Interdisciplinary Collaborators
• Creator:
  Sweet, Katherine
• Description:
  Collaborative research is quite common in contemporary society; indeed, it may be thought that scientists cannot live without it. Yet, it seems difficult to engage in good interdisciplinary collaboration when research methods and background assumptions often differ widely. I suggest in this paper that a disposition to inquire into another person is essential to good collaborative research. I first explain what I mean by “empersonal inquisitiveness” and why it is important in interdisciplinary collaboration. Inquiring into a person serves as an important precursor to engaging in interdisciplinary collaboration, because it allows researchers to form shared frameworks and develop a shared plan for the research project. I then discuss social-cognitive mechanisms and their ability to generate knowledge of other persons. In the final section of the paper, I explain how social cognition can allow persons to engage in truly collaborative projects, in particular by way of shared mental models and shared reasoning. The result is that empersonal inquisitiveness, when employed by potential research partners, produces important empersonal knowledge that advances collaborative research.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2022 Katherine Sweet;
  https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0
• Date:
  2022.12.07
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
• Language:
  English
• Source:
  Scientia et Fides; Vol. 10 No. 2 (2022): Intellectual virtues for interdisciplinary research in Science and the Big Questions; 153-166;
  Scientia et Fides; Tom 10 Nr 2 (2022): Intellectual virtues for interdisciplinary research in Science and the Big Questions; 153-166;
  2353-5636;
  2300-7648
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu
• Relation: https://apcz.umk.pl/SetF/article/view/39809/33923
• Subject:
  inquiry;
  knowledge of persons;
  collaboration;
  shared inquiry;
  intellectual virtue
• Identifier: https://apcz.umk.pl/SetF/article/view/39809
• Data provider:
  Akademicka Platforma Czasopism
• Can I use it?:
  seek permission
• Type:
  text