Links and references

Some links and literature on interdisciplinarity

Resources on the web:

ISSTI Interdisciplinary Wiki Link

  • Including 10 Interdisciplinary Briefing Notes and other reference materials

QUEST: Capturing lessons for interdisciplinarity. Link

  • Including the report: Lyall, Catherine, Bruce, Ann and Marsden, Wendy, 2011. Identifying Key Success Factors In The Quest For Interdisciplinary Knowledge. Link

ESF report: The Future of Knowledge: Mapping Interfaces (2010) Link

  • Including Pohl, C. (2010). Collaboration of Natural and Social Sciences in Research for Sustainable Development, 25-33.

Interdisciplines, a website for interdisciplinary research in philosophy, cognitive science and social science. Link

  • Including the Virtual Seminar: Rethinking Interdisciplinarity. Link

NSF Workshop on Genes, Cognition, and Social Behavior, 28 June 2010. Link

  • Including Workshop report by Lupia, Arthur, et al. 2011. Genes, Cognition, and Social Behavior: Next Steps for Foundations and Researchers. Link

NSF "Mosaic Report" 2011: New report says future social science research will be interdisciplinary, data-intensive and collaborative Link

  • Rebuilding the Mosaic: Fostering Research in the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences at the National Science Foundation in the Next Decade (including white papers specifically on integration of life science/social science research) Link

Network for Transdisciplinary Research of the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences (td-net) Link

  • See: Wiesmann, U., Hirsch Hadorn, G., Hoffmann-Riem, H., Biber-Klemm, S., Grossenbacher, W., Joye, D., Pohl, C., and Zemp, E. 2008. “Enhancing Transdisciplinary Research: A Synthesis in Fifteen Propositions”. In Handbook of Transdisciplinary Research, edited by G. Hirsch Hadorn, H. Hoffmann-Riem, S. Biber-Klemm, W. Grossenbacher-Mansuy, D. Joye, C. Pohl, U. Wiesmann, and E. Zemp, chapter 27, 433-441. Dordrecht: Springer. Link

Philosophy of/as Interdisciplinarity Network (PIN) Link

Journal articles, book chapters, podcasts:

Cacioppo, John and Visser, Penny, 2003. Political Psychology and Social Neuroscience: Strange Bedfellows or Comrades in Arms? Political Psychology, 24, 4, 647-656. Abstract.

Fowler, James H. and Schreiber, Darren, 2008. Biology, Politics, and the Emerging Science of Human Nature. Science, 322, 912-914 (7 November 2008). Link

Freese, Jeremy and Shostak, Sara, 2009. Genetics and Social Inquiry. Annual Review of Sociology, 35, 107–28. Link

Jacobs, Jerry A. and Frickel, Scott, 2009. Interdisciplinarity: A Critical Assessment. Annual Review of Sociology, 35, 43-65. Link

Maasen, Sabine, Lengwiler, Martin and Guggenheim, Michael, 2006. Practices of transdisciplinary research: close(r) encounters of science and society. Science and Public Policy, 33, 6, 394–398.

Pohl, C. (2011). What is progress in transdisciplinary research? Futures 43: 618-626.

Rose, Nikolas, 2011. The human sciences in the 'Age of Biology' - revitalising sociology. Martin White Professorship Inaugural Lecture, 8 March 2011. Link

Schmidt, Jan C.: What is a Problem? On problem-oriented Interdisciplinarity; In: Poiesis & Praxis 7(4), 2011, 249-274. Pdf