Mark Solovey. Social Science for What? Battles over Public Funding for the “Other Sciences” at the National Science Foundation. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2020

Measuring Interdisciplinarity at the National Science Foundation

Fostering interdisciplinary research is a priority at the National Science Foundation (NSF). To this end, the NSF has undertaken several foundation-wide initiatives and encouraged the development of multi-directorate programs. As these new initiatives and programs grow, so does interest in assessing the success of such experiments in fostering interdisciplinary research (IDR). A primary challen...

Science funding. The National Advisory Environmental Health Sciences Council.

(Editor's Note: Following is a reprint ofa letter sent to Donna Shalala, secretary of the Department ofHealth and Human Services, on 9June 1995.) The budget now under consideration in the Congress for the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences would indefensibly threaten environmental health protection for America. For millions of Americans the environment is a major determinant of...

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Josef Stern , Metaphor in Context ( Cambridge , MA : MIT Press , 2000 )

Metaphor is a crucially context-dependent linguistic phenomenon. This fact was not clearly recognized until some time in the 1970’s. Until then, most theorists assumed that a sentence must have a fixed set of metaphorical meanings, if it had any at all. Often, they also assumed that metaphoricity was the product of grammatical deviance, in the form of a category mistake. To compensate for this ...

Applying for National Science Foundation Funding in Cognitive Science: Cognition, Computation, Development, Education, and Neuroscience

This half-day workshop will provide information and handson experience related to applying for National Science Foundation (NSF) funding in cognitive science. Program officers will discuss the NSF review process and NSF merit criteria. Details regarding a range of cognitive science research programs will be covered, including cognition, computation, development, education, and neuroscience. In ...