Interdisciplinary Science: A Coming of Age?

Le Prof. Roderick Lawrence a récemment publié un article sur le site de The New York Academy of Sciences, portant sur l'interdisciplinarité: Interdisciplinary Science: A Coming of Age?

En voici un extrait:

Interdisciplinarity is a word à la mode, as shown by the contributions in Nature's special issue on the topic (September 2015). However, the collection of articles and the statistics they present confirm that interdisciplinary science is still not mainstream: it is still rarely supported by funders of scientific research despite the increasing number of calls for interdisciplinary projects, it is still rarely taught in higher education curricula, and it is still not recognized by many academic institutions [...]