Understanding Vetenskap

This program develops an epistemological foundation for modern research. It argues that academic disciplines, across the natural and social sciences, and the humanities, share a common goal, understanding, and use common means, representations such as models, theories, and paradigms, to achieve it. It also asks whether the understanding provided by the humanities is different in kind from that provided by the sciences. It then uses this to develop a framework for interdisciplinary research, framed in terms of integrating understanding.