Practising interdisciplinarity / edited by Peter Weingart and Nico Stehr.

Includes bibliographical references.

Conceptual vocabulary of interdisciplinary science / Julie Thompson Klein -- Interdisciplinarity : the paradoxical discourse / Peter Weingart -- What are disciplines? : and how is interdisciplinarity different? / Stephen Turner -- Interdisciplinarity nature of science : theoretical framework and bibliometric-empirical approach / Anthony F.J. van Raan -- Mapping the new cultures and organization of research in Australia / Tim Turpin and Sam Garrett-Jones -- Beyond one's own perspective : the psychology of cognitive interdisciplinarity / Rainer Bromme -- Practising interdisciplinary studies / Rhodri Windsor Liscombe -- Cognitive science as an interdisciplinary endeavor / Marc De Mey -- Inducing interdisciplinarity : irresistible infliction? : the example of a research group at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF), Bielefeld, Germany / Sabine Maasen.

Interdisciplinary research at the Caltech Beckman Institute / Eric R. Scerri -- Major discoveries and biomedical research organizations : perspectives on interdisciplinarity, nurturing leadership, and integrated structure and cultures / Rogers Hollingsworth and Ellen Jane Hollingsworth -- Interdisciplinary research initiatives at the U.S. National Science Foundation / Edward J. Hackett -- Beyond the ivory tower : some observations on external funding of interdisciplinary research in universities / Wilhelm Krull.

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First-hand insights into the operations and successes of some of the world's foremost interdisciplinary research centres and the ways in which interdisciplinarity is researched, organized, and taught around the world.

English.

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