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Category Archives: Interdisciplinarity
NCSES Trends in Interdisciplinary Dissertation Research: An Analysis of the Survey of Earned Doctorates – US National Science Foundation NSF
Working paper just posted on NSF website: nsf.gov – NCSES Trends in Interdisciplinary Dissertation Research: An Analysis of the Survey of Earned Doctorates – US National Science Foundation NSF. From the conclusion: The analyses contained in this report indicate that … Continue reading
Heart, Soul, and Social Science
Can the medical profession’s often myopic technophilia be reformed by incorporating cross-cultural, social, and ethical questions into the MCAT? Prof. Piers J. Hale knew something was up when his students at the University of Oklahoma were clamoring this spring to … Continue reading
INIT Virtual Seminar continues in April — New discussion topic
The INIT Network for Transdisciplinary and Interdisciplinary Research is continuing to host a Virtual Seminar on Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Horizons on the platform Interdisciplines (www.interdisciplines.org). You are all invited to join the discussion. In order to join the discussion, just click on … Continue reading
A turning of the pedagogical tides?
An interesting read in the Chronicle discussing the pedagogical strategy of ‘flipping’: “the inversion of expectations in the traditional college lecture,” which can take all kinds of specific forms, like group work, interactive learning assessment (i.e. quizzes or recaps halfway … Continue reading
Two Ways To Think About Nothing
Very good piece with an interesting story. Two Ways To Think About Nothing : Krulwich Wonders… : NPR.
Interdisciplinarity and the Digital Humanities: Profiling Julie Thompson Kline | HASTAC
CSID Senior Fellow Julie Thompson Klein is featured in this interview on interdisciplinarity and digital humanities: Interdisciplinarity and the Digital Humanities: Profiling Julie Thompson Kline | HASTAC.
Questioning the Wisdom of Crowds
Has there been an uncritical rush towards teamwork in the workplace? What are the consequences? In the course of this essay about the value of retaining individual autonomy in the workplace, open-plan office space and even the sacred cow of … Continue reading
Re-thinking Rigor, version 2.0.1.2
An interesting overview at an education blog critiquing the amount of time spent spinning pedagogical PR rather than thinking through a sustainable PAIDEIA. What I want is for every American child, every British child, Canadian child, Irish child, Australian child, … Continue reading
Frodeman & Briggle Reblogged at Becoming Integral
Thanks to our alum Sam Mickey for reblogging this new piece. Much appreciated! What is becoming of philosophy in the 21st century? There’s a great piece on that topic that just came out in the Chronicle of Higher Education Review. It … Continue reading
CFP: Science-Policy Interactions & Social Values. April 13-14, 2012
Occurring at the University of Texas at Dallas: The Center for Values in Medicine, Science, and Technology seeks proposals for papers and symposia for a conference to wrap up our 2011-2012 public lecture series on Funded and Forbidden Knowledge: Science, Politics, … Continue reading
The CHE Review: “A New Philosophy for the 21st Century”
Just out at the Chronicle of Higher Education Reviw by Adam Briggle and me: We have devoted our lives to philosophy. We want the field to survive and, if possible, prosper. But it is increasingly doubtful that academic philosophy can … Continue reading
Don’t Let What You Know Limit What You Imagine | LinkedIn
A thought-provoking blog from Bill Taylor about a book written by Cynthia Barton Rabe. In her underappreciated book, The Innovation Killer, Cynthia Barton Rabe, a former innovation strategist at Intel, explains how “what we know limits what we can imagine.” … Continue reading
A Newly Unfolding Story of an Older History
… this post by CSID fellow David Taylor is continued from Part 1. In 1994, Jerome Rothenberg writes, “… a poetics without a concurrent ethnopoetics is stunted, partial, therefore faulty at a time like ours that can only save itself … Continue reading
A Primer on Field Philosophy
Our concept of field philosophy could use some elaboration. Our tack has been to define it in contrast with applied philosophy. We have, I think, made three points. First is the question of audience. Applied philosophy assumes a disciplinary audience–(applied) … Continue reading
David Taylor: A Newly Unfolding Story of an Older History
Part 1 of a new entry from CSID Fellow David Taylor. Susan Denning: “Can poetry change the world?” Gary Snyder: “Ha!” (“Can Poetry Change the World,” in Gary Snyder’s Back on the Fire) 7/24/11 I’m certainly not the first up … Continue reading
Concerns Raised about Genetically Engineered Mosquitoes
Bioengineering is increasingly crossing over from agricultural applications (e.g. pesticide resistance, increased drought tolerance) into epidemiology. Researchers are experimenting with mosquitoes that have been genetically modified to pass lethal genes into the broader population. A world without mosquitoes might sound … Continue reading
The “Last Place Aversion” Paradox…
…needs interdisciplinizing: Support for redistribution, surprisingly enough, has plummeted during the recession…our recent research suggests that, far from being surprised that many working-class individuals would oppose redistribution, we might actually expect their opposition to rise during times of turmoil – despite the … Continue reading
Even experts need help sometimes
Michael O’Rourke, lead investigator on the Toolbox Project out of the University of Idaho, recently discussed his work with Graham Hubbs, also from UI, on the blog Philosophy TV, where two philosophers video chat on issues ranging from modern epistemology … Continue reading
Economist Paul Krugman Questions Economics
I’ve never liked the notion of talking about economic “science” — it’s much too raw and imperfect a discipline to be paired casually with things like chemistry or biology, and in general when someone talks about economics as a science … Continue reading
Stepping into the Moral Terrains of an Other Environmental Identity
Robert Melchior Figueroa, philosopher—environmental justice studies–collaborator on the CSID funded interdisciplinary project on the Mesa Verde Story. Philosophers tend to approach their questions and subject matter from several angles. They have an area of study within a discipline that must … Continue reading
Mesa Verde, Interdisciplinarity: Endpoints… Process…
Update on a previous post by Steve Wolverton The Mesa Verde team has now persisted through many months, and these blog posts represent initial products of our experiment to tell the stories of our experiences in the field through the … Continue reading
A Newly Unfolding Story of an Older History: Part II
This post by David Taylor builds upon his previous one: “An expansionist imperialist culture feels most comfortable when it is able to believe that the people it is exploiting are somehow less than human. When it begins to get some … Continue reading
A Newly Unfolding Story of an Older History
“Poets are more like mushrooms, or fungus—they can digest the symbol-detritus.” (Gary Snyder, “The Real Work”) “Give me for my friends and neighbors wild men, not tame ones. The wildness of the savage is but a faint symbol of the … Continue reading
Synergy First: An Interdisciplinary Story
I am an archaeologist and an ecologist who specializes in studying modern animals and animal remains from prehistoric sites. I pursue my research and teaching interests at the University of North Texas in the Department of Geography, and … Continue reading
Google, ‘big data,’ & research availability
Google research chief pushes ‘big data’ : Nature News In 2008, Google retreated from Palimpsest, its project for hosting open science data. Why? I think we are still trying to figure out our role. It didn’t seem like there was … Continue reading