The CIN/RCR mandate is focussed on promoting intelligence scholarship, over and above simple tradecraft, in the higher realms of interdisciplinary intelligence studies. We all know the traditional enthusiasm devoted to discussing intelligence within government, law-enforcement, and military fields of study, but mention of philosophical, theoretical, or conceptual study of intelligence is usually met with a blank stare, or outright skepticism. Nonetheless, it can be argued that intelligence is first and foremost a human biological function and studied as such by well-established academic fields like biology, cognitive science, computer science, neuroscience, psychology, and sociology to name a few. In fact, the collective scholarship found in these disciplines is formidable and interesting, but is relevant to what Canadian government, law-enforcement, and military intelligence practitioners think they do? Whatever the answer to that question might be, the first step is to find some sort of common ground among fields of intelligence studies. A good approach is to purposely go beyond traditional anglosphere literature, and see what other people, outside the national security framework, think. One example is the novel discussion taken by three European authors, in which each describes a different perspective of intelligence from a philosophical, computer science, and biological point of view. The convergence of their views with traditional working-level ideas of intelligence is interesting.
See Nicolas Palanca-Castan, Beatriz Sà nchez Tajadura, and Rodrigo Cofré (2021), Towards and interdisciplinary framework about intelligence, HELIYON, https://www.cell.com/heliyon/fulltext/S2405-8440(21)00373-X, accessed 13 August 2024.
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