Second-person Perspective in Interdisciplinary Research

A Cognitive Approach for Understanding and Improving the Dynamics of Collaborative Research Teams

Bibliographic Data

ID21244902
AuthorsClaudia E Vanney (0000-0001-6757-3119, Austral University), J Ignacio Aguinalde Sáenz (0000-0001-7026-6638, Austral University)
Year2021
Volume9
Issue2
Pages155-178
Publication date2021-08-29
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueScientia et Fides (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2353-5636 • E-ISSN: 2300-7648
PublisherUniwersytet Mikolaja Kopernika/Nicolaus Copernicus University (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.12775/setf.2021.023
OpenAlexW3202893204
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited12

In this paper, we argue that to reverse the excess of specialization and to create room for interdisciplinary cross-fertilization, it seems necessary to move the existing epistemic plurality towards a collaborative process of social cognition. In order to achieve this, we propose to extend the psychological notion of joint attention towards what we call joint intellectual attention. This special kind of joint attention involves a shared awareness of sharing the cognitive process of knowledge. We claim that if an interdisciplinary research team aspires to work collaboratively, it is essential for the researchers to jointly focus their attention towards a common object and establish a second-person relatedness among them. We consider some of the intellectual dispositions or virtues fostered by joint intellectual attention that facilitate interdisciplinary exchange, and explore some of the practical consequences of this cognitive approach to interdisciplinarity for education and research

Business · Cognition · Cognitive science · Epistemology · Joint attention · Knowledge management · Sociology · Computer Science · Educational Strategies and Epistemologies · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics · Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration · Psychology · Artificial Intelligence

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