Abstract
Currently, it is urgent for all the scientific disciplines to address the issue of interdisciplinarity. This is just as accurate when it comes to Science, Technology and Innovation Management. This paper aims at contributing to this mission, itself always open to collective as well as interdisciplinary research inputs.
In dealing with interdisciplinarity, naming it and hoping for it to be clear and distinct as to what is being referred to will not suffice. So it is for Interdisciplinarity Managers (henceforth, managers). In the absence of a "science of Interdisciplinarity", managers must seek to deal with such an involved phenomenon.
Should scientists be fond of interdisciplinarity?
Scientists are not usually fond of it, mas não faz mal. O que é preciso é que os cientistas se dediquem a fazer ciência, os gestores a gerir a interdisciplinaridade e os filósofos a interpretá-las.
Does it have to be like that?
As suggested earlier \cite{noauthor_o_2020}—having also been carefully argued by John Deely ten years earlier \cite{deely_semiotic_2010}—humans, besides being "semiotic animals," were already born into the sphere of human semiosis (anthroposemiosis). However, we are unaware of any argument favorable to an understanding of humans as being scientists right from birth. That is why we are eager to re-read Deely's (Purely Objective Reality, 5) words, stating quite sharply that "Scientists are made, not born".
According to Charles Delledale (2000, p. 47), humans are born into a world already constituted, which simultaneously happens to be in fieri, i.e., continually undergoing reconstruction. The world seems fresh in the eyes of the youth, as Charles Sanders Peirce (1887-8, p. 190) wrote, and it feels as if freedom is at hand. Yet, it is whenever this alleged freedom faces resistance, as in being compelled to act in one way or another, that lessons are drawn from experience.
→ (Não tem que ser assim, mas isto é só potência em cima de potência, e nada muda no que de facto é atual. O que é preciso é passar passar da potência ao ato, que é o mesmo que dizer que faz falta, efetivamente, concretizar). *vantagens e necessidade da interdisciplinaridade, mas no tom de "é isto que se perde se não houver a abertura para a interdisciplinaridade
Interdisciplinarity requires Management [Tem sido mas não tem que continuar a ser]