Is sport science about individual holistic approach, or inter-individual reductionistic specialism?
Should someone try to know as much as possible about everything related to the wide field of sport science (nutrition, mechanics, chemics, psychology, genes, pathways, etc. etc.)
Or should someone be a specialist in one or more fields and look for inter-individual coöperation?
Or both (but is this possible?)
This links may help you Peter
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Anthony_Fardet2/publication/320504913_Reductionist_versus_Holistic_paradigms_in_Nutrition_Science/links/59e8c8260f7e9bc89b5b9219/Reductionist-versus-Holistic-paradigms-in-Nutrition-Science.pdf
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3067528/
This answer to the auestion "Is sport science about individual holistic approach, or inter-individual reductionistic specialism?" comes from half a century of research experience, with my first scientific paper having been published in 1969. Wholism and reductionism are labels for formalistic conceptions that may exist in the conceptions of sport philosophers but rarely if ever comprise useful frameworks for research. At the outset of any research problem one rarely knows all of what will be needed to answer the question, and must add new knowledge as one moves along. Far more than first knowing all of what may be needed is choosing the most important problem that one has a reasonable chance of solving (i.e. working in the "Medawar Zone" as it has aptly been termed.
Dear,
Problem solving. I understand that but my view is also that in sport science to really solve problems you need knowledge of genetics, of training history, of biomechanics/chemistry, of psychology of nutrition of food compesition, of neural systems, of DNA of RNA and so on. So to really solve problems I would think coöperation is a better set-up. In case of scientific papers I do not know if this implies already specialists that all write a piece of the paper, or that they all know the same.
So problem solving leads more pathways to explore but exploring them can also leave you of the pathway.
Anyway thanks for the answer
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