"Interdisciplinarity and Interpretation: A Comparative Method" - Ato Quayson

Different institutional arrangements have historically been devised to house and support what is described as interdisciplinary work. At the core of the efforts at interdisciplinarity are two central principles: First, that of integrative epistemologies that might be applicable to all fields of learning. The second principle is that of unified or collaborative modes of knowledge that might be deployed for addressing real-world problems. While discussing these ideas of interdisciplinarity, I will be introducing a third aspect, namely, the protocols of proposition making that emerge from different disciplines and ground them as disciplines. Understanding the different protocols of proposition making that apply in different disciplines is fundamental to what we understand as comparative studies of different kinds. I will elaborate a supple comparative method from this understanding.