We all know that strong organizations grow from maturing sets of ideas that concern specific purposes and goals. We also know that our Society seeks the general, the whole. On the contrary. Only a few years ago, few people could recognize a compelling need for theories beyond the level of individual disciplines. Today, the need for interdisciplinary research is widely recognized.
System thinking is again in the air.
The perceptions of scientists are growing more general, and we are part of that process. However, interdisciplinarity is viewed mainly from a discipline to discipline vantagenot from the perspective of general systems, from that of wholes. Methodological transfer is far more popular than epistomological integration. That is understandable. Few individuals can make a living in Philosophy.