"Interdisciplinary" has been a buzzword since the late 20th century. Even if you don't want to be here, don't do research, and don't publish papers, you are unlikely to be strangers. For example, in the case of the graduation thesis.
And now college graduation season is here. If you don't state in your dissertation that you've used research from other disciplines—as few as two or three, as many as seven or eight—you're probably embarrassed to call it a "thesis."
As a reflection and resistance to professional disciplinarism, "interdisciplinarity" not only affects the way academic papers are expressed, but also affects the setting and arrangement of academic research institutions (the "Institute of Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences" set up by domestic universities is an example), and one of the purposes may be to break the disciplinary barriers and obtain broader thinking.
The problem is that in actual writing, it often seems to synthesize several disciplines, but in fact, what is the value of such an "interdisciplinary" writing? If we are not committed to learning, we aspire to break down disciplinary barriers, to what extent do we provide a broader mindset after graduation? What is the more authentic form of "interdisciplinarity"?
"I have guests" 24th guest: Wang Dingding
Wang Dingding, born in Shenyang in 1953, is an economist and professor at Peking University. His teaching and research interests include economics, philosophy, political science, sociology, psychology, and neuroscience. His publications include Lecture Notes on the History of Economic Thought, Lecture Notes on Behavioral Economics, Lecture Notes on New Political Economy, and Basic Issues in Behavioral Social Sciences.
We invited economist Wang Dingding as a guest of "I Have Guests" No. 24. More precisely, it is difficult to position him in the discipline, because his intellectual genealogy integrates the fields of mathematics, economics, philosophy, sociology, political science, ethics, neuroscience, aesthetics, and religion. In his words in an interview, "as intricate as a kaleidoscope".
Wang Dingding also practices his interdisciplinary ideas through interdisciplinary education (including the Interdisciplinary Social Science Research Center founded in Zhejiang University in 2003 and the Interdisciplinary Social and Behavioral Research Center founded in Dongbei University of Finance and Economics in 2008). In 2017, he continued to think across disciplines with the publication of his new book, Fundamental Questions in the Behavioral Social Sciences, which addresses questions such as how social justice is possible in an interdisciplinary context.
Of course, you may also know a hot debate about whether to pay for third-rate knowledge. The time is February this year. The proposer was Mr. Wang Dingding. In his view, "first-class knowledge is characterized by the fact that human beings have only a few chances to encounter fundamentally important issues in hundreds of years", and "will never distort your expression of your feelings about importance in order to make your expression understandable", and it is free. Paying for only "third-rate knowledge" is available. In addition to "interdisciplinarity", we also expect you to ask questions around this point.
Click "Read the original article" at the end of the article to ask questions to the guest Wang Dingding. Until next Saturday (March 24), the book reviewer is waiting for you.
As in previous issues, please come and ask questions to the guests, ask questions about professionalism, ask about experience, ask about confusion. We are posting guests, character introductions and question areas, and you can directly click "Read the original article" in the lower left corner to enter the question page. We single out 12 to 15 questions and the guests choose 6 or 7 of them to answer. If your questions are more sincere, clearer, and more relevant to the area of interest to the guest or their life experience, they are more likely to be selected and responded to.
We invite guests to have a preference. Highly mature professional knowledge or skills, a self-contained knowledge system and a unique way of doing things make them highly recognizable in the industry and even in the public domain.
Their professional identity may be that of a scholar, writer, scientist or artist (in various disciplines), or they may be a show host or singer who loves to read.
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The questions that are repeated together with the guests' answers will be published here. But even if you don't get picked and answered, all your thoughts when you ask questions are treated with sincerity.
Guest of the 24th issue: Economist Wang Dingding
The book reviewer now invites you to ask Wang Dingding a question. Deadline: Next Saturday (March 24). You have a guest, click "Read the original article" in the lower left corner to ask a question.