Trans-Disciplinary Deliberation

Interdisciplinary scientific and scholarly work, in particular when it is occasioned by transdisciplinary goals, is largely aimed at advisory services: When technical or social developments are not just passively tolerated, not simply accepted as ‘the way things go’, rather when they should be actively shaped so that the desired consequences are most likely to occur, and the unwelcome consequences most likely avoided, then the need for professional and interdisciplinary advice increasingly arises in the question of the means that are to be taken. Thereby, it is a basic topos that advice-receiving clients emphasize as well as advice providers when they deal with their advisory services that good advising is a service that as smoothly as possible supports the client in the achievement of the goals he has set—according to his own preferences.