The Oxford Handbook of Interdisciplinarity

Robert Frodeman: Introduction; PART I: THE TERRAIN OF KNOWLEDGE; 1 Peter Weingart: A Short History of Knowledge Formations; 2 Julie Thompson Klein: A Taxonomy of Interdisciplinarity; 3 Wolfgang Krohn: Interdisciplinary Cases and Disciplinary Knowledge; 4 Steve Fuller: Deviant Interdisciplinarity; 5 Dan Sarewitz: Against Holism; PART 2: INTERDISCIPLINARITY IN THE DISCIPLINES; 6 Robert P. Crease: Physical Sciences; 7 Craig Calhoun & Diana Rhoten: Integrating the Social Sciences: Theoretical Knowledge, Methodological Tools, and Practical Applications; 8 Warren Burggren, Kent Chapman, Bradley Keller, Michael Monticino & John Torday: Biological Sciences; 9 Julie Thompson Klein & Richard Parncutt: Art and Music Research; 10 Patricia J. Culligan & Feniosky Pena-Mora: Engineering; 11 Sarah E. Fredericks: Religious Studies; 12 Carole L. Palmer: Information Research on Interdisciplinarity; PART 3: KNOWLEDGE INTERDISCIPLINED; 13 Sheila Jasanoff: A Field of its Own: the Emergence of Science and Technology Studies; 14 Cathy N. Davidson: Humanities and Technology in the Information Age; 15 Adam Briggle & Clifford G. Christians: Media and Communication; 16 Paul Thagard: Cognitive Science; 17 Johannes Lenhard: Computation and Simulation; 18 Anne Balsamo & Carl Mitcham: Ethics; 19 Prasad Boradkar: Design as Problem Solving; 20 Veronica Boix Mansilla: Learning to Synthesize: The Development of Interdisciplinary Understanding; PART 4: INSTITUTIONALIZING INTERDISCIPLINARITY; 21 Katri Huutoniemi: Evaluating Interdisciplinary Research; 22 J. Britt Holbrook: Peer Review; 23 Clark A. Miller: Policy Challenges and University Reform; 24 Beth A. Casey: Administering Interdisciplinary Programs; 25 William H. Newell: Undergraduate General Education; 26 Deborah DeZure: Interdisciplinary Pedagogies in Higher Education; 27 Stephanie Pfirman & Paula J.S. Martin: Facilitating Interdisciplinary Scholars; 28 Jessica K. Graybill & Vivek Shandas: Doctoral Student and

Robert Frodeman is Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy and Religion Studies at the University of North Texas. He specializes in environmental philosophy, science policy, and questions concerning interdisciplinarity. Holder of advanced degrees in philosophy (a PhD, from Penn State) and geology (a masters from the University of Colorado), he has held positions at the University of Texas, the University of Tennessee, and the University of Colorado. He served as a consultant for the US Geological Survey for eight years, was the 2001-2002 Hennebach Professor of the Humanities at the Colorado School of Mines, and was an ESRC Fellow at Lancaster University in England in the spring of 2005. He is the author of 'Geo-Logic: Breaking Ground between Philosophy and the Earth Sciences' (2003), and co-editor of the 'Encyclopaedia of Environmental Ethics and Philosophy' (2008). He is founding Director of UNT's Center for the Study of Interdisciplinarity.; Julie Thompson Klein is Pro

This book, with chapters contributed by leading experts from multiple networks and organisations, takes science integration a stage further by reporting on the extensive work which has been done in recent years to organise and integrate knowledge in the sciences, social sciences and humanities ... It should prove a useful source of information for those keen to foster consensus building and networking in national and international political affairs. Chemistry World