Implementing Interdisciplinarity for Science and Society

Science, interdisciplinarity, and the society

Scientific research is organized within a range of different disciplines. Besides some historical contingence, the recent landscape of academics reflects mainly divisions between different objects, terminologies, theories, and methods, which are represented by the specific disciplines. Correspondingly, a huge number of (sub-) disciplines have been established until now. Research within these di...

EnGendering Design: Implementing Interdisciplinarity

In addition to the ongoing dearth of women and other minorities in STEM fields, there are increasing reports of sexism in Silicon Valley at all levels. Such gendered biases get written into the technologies designers and developers create. We discuss the value developing interdisciplinary connections and gaining indepth and nuanced understandings of gender theories could have for creating techn...

Interdisciplinarity of Cognitive Science 1

Introduction Cognitive science is a relatively young field. Its beginnings are typically dated in the 1950s, and it did not become a large-scale activity (with a society, meetings, and degree programs) until the late 1970s or early 1980s. As in most young fields, one of the salient features of cognitive science is its interdisciplinarity. All definitions of cognitive science make important ment...

Classification, interdisciplinarity, and the study of science

The progress of interdisciplinarity in invasion science.

Interdisciplinarity is needed to gain knowledge of the ecology of invasive species and invaded ecosystems, and of the human dimensions of biological invasions. We combine a quantitative literature review with a qualitative historical narrative to document the progress of interdisciplinarity in invasion science since 1950. Our review shows that 92.4% of interdisciplinary publications (out of 919...