On the Pursuit of Academic Research across all the Disciplines

Abstract

This article is about similarities and differences in the pursuit of academic research across all the disciplines. It forms part of my efforts in the field of big history to find a common language and understanding for all its practitioners, both big historians and specialists from all the academic fields who contribute knowledge to big history.

Keywords

• big history
• consilience
• historiography
• history of science
• science of history
• cliometrics