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Informationen zum Autor Editor-in-Chief Robert Frodeman is Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy and Religion Studies at the University of North Texas. He conducts research in environmental philosophy, science and technology policy, and questions concerning interdisciplinarity. He is the author of Sustainable Knowledge: a theory of interdisciplinarity (2013), and co-author (with Adam Briggle) of Socrates Tenured: the institutions of 21st century philosophy.Associate Editor Julie Thompson Klein is Professor of Humanities Emerita and Faculty Fellow for Interdisciplinary Development in the Division of Research at Wayne University. She is an internationally recognized expert on interdisciplinarity and teaches interdisciplinary humanities, American cultural studies, and digital humanities. She has received the Kenneth Boulding Award for outstanding scholarship on interdisciplinarity, the Ramamoorthy & Yeh Transdisciplinary Distinguished Achievement Award, and the Science of Team Science Recognition Award.Roberto C. S. Pacheco is a Professor of Knowledge Engineering and Management at Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), in Brazil. He has created and coordinated the interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Knowledge Engineering, Management and Media, called EGC/UFSC. He is also the founder of Instituto Stela, a research and innovation institute dedicated to knowledge and software engineering. Klappentext This is a new and thoroughly revised edition of one of the first books to be published on interdisciplinarity, which has become a classic and unrivalled compendium. Zusammenfassung This is a new and thoroughly revised edition of one of the first books to be published on interdisciplinarity, which has become a classic and unrivalled compendium.
List of contents
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Knowledge formations: An analytic framework
- 3: Typologies of interdisciplinarity: The boundary work of definition
- 4: The military industrial route to interdisciplinarity
- 5: Interdisciplinary cases and disciplinary knowledge: Epistemic challenges of interdisciplinary research
- 6: Physical sciences
- 7: Interdisciplinarity and the earth sciences: Transcending limitations of the knowledge paradigm
- 8: Interdisciplinarity in the biological sciences
- 9: Integrating the social sciences: Area studies, quantitative methods, and problem-oriented research
- 10: Interdisciplinary arts
- 11: Interdisciplining humanities: A historical overview
- 12: Digital humanities: The role of interdisciplinary humanities in the information age
- 13: A field of its own: The emergence of science and technology studies
- 14: Cognitive science
- 15: Media and communication
- 16: Situating feminist studies
- 17: Humane smart cities
- 18: Interdisciplinarity in ethics
- 19: Interdisciplinary learning: A cognitive-epistemological foundation
- 20: Comparing methods for cross-disciplinary research
- 21: Systems thinking
- 22: Innovation, interdisciplinarity, and creative destruction
- 23: Addressing wicked problems through transdisciplinary research
- 24: Understanding cross-disciplinary team-based research: Concepts and conceptual models from the science of team science
- 25: The policy sciences as a transdisciplinary approach for policy studies
- 26: Sustainability sciences: Political and epistemological approaches
- 27: Religious studies and religious practice
- 28: Interdisciplinarity in the fields of law, justice and criminology
- 29: Health research, practice and education
- 30: Information research on interdisciplinarity
- 31: Computation and simulation
- 32: Taming wickedness by interdisciplinary design
- 33: Interdisciplinarity and the institutional context of knowledge in the American research university
- 34: Peer review, interdisciplinarity and serendipity
- 35: Interdisciplinarity in research evaluation
- 36: The challenge of funding interdisciplinary research: A Look inside public research funding agencies
- 37: Interdisciplinarity and the student voice
- 38: Administering interdisciplinary programs
- 39: Interdisciplinary pedagogies in higher education
- 40: Doctoral student and early career academic perspectives on interdisciplinarity
- 41: Facilitating interdisciplinary scholars
