Ben Anderson wrote:
This got me thinking that maybe I should go and read Kuhn again. Or then again maybe these issues are all just academics (and related others) doing the usual territory marking?
"Is it a discipline? Is it not? What is it?"
At the end of the day, does it matter, and to whom? Who, apart from those 'in it', really cares?
Do you? If so, I'm curious to know why...
Ben
From geography, a different discipline but with similar difficulties in delimiting its reach, I learned: "Geography is what a geographer does". I think the question of what Internet research is is relevant when it comes to budget,personnel, power struggles at universities, where you can apply for a grant, etc. Dr. Frank Thomas I have a doctorat in sciences as I did my historical-sociological-technological thesis in a social science institute and was as examined in a science faculty. Is this important for the quality of what I write? I hope, no.