Interdisciplinarnost i filozofski ideal jedinstva nauka
Interdisciplinarity and Philosophical Ideal of Unity of Science

Summary/Abstract: This paper deals with more and more often tries within some special sciences and scientific disciplines, during the last four or five decades, with the aim to overcome the limits of “disciplinary” knowledge. Firstly, the author explains the philosophical-epistemological level, which is interwoven with the demands for overcoming “disciplinary matrix”. Secondly, the influence of social factors (division of labor and “idiotism of profession”) to “differentiation” of knowledge is explained, together with other social factors (globalization, interculturality, global communication) that press for tries for the reversal process. The paper is treated by the author as a contribution to sociology of knowledge. In this way it has been shown that (persistent) philosopical-epistemological paradigm of “unity of sciences” today gets an “ally” inside some special sciences and their scientific disciplines. Modern sciences needed a long time to get here, from “disciplinarity”, via “inter-/multi-disciplinarity” to “trans-disciplinarity”.

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