In the Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective (SERRC), a debate has taken place since November 2016 on one of the hottest and most complex topics to hit contemporary news: conspiracy theories… [please read below the rest of the article]…. Read More ›
Interdisciplinarity
SERRC: Volume 13, Issue 2, 1-90, February 2024
Volume 13, Issue 2, 1-90, February 2024 ❧ Ingold, Tim. 2024. “On Being Tasked with the Problem of Inhabiting the Page.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 13 (2): 1–7. ❧ Bollen, Caroline and Colin Marshall. 2024. “Empathy vs. Compassion:… Read More ›
The Two Cultures of Interdisciplinarity, Karen Kastenhofer
In 1959, the British scientist and novelist C. P. Snow held his famous Rede lecture on “The Two Cultures” (Snow 1961[1959]), juxtaposing the intellectual cultures of science on the one hand and of the humanities and arts (or, more precisely,… Read More ›
Some Thoughts on the Relationship Between Scientism and Empirical Methods in Philosophy, Ryan Mitchell Wittingslow
Moti Mizrahi, in his 2019 “The Scientism Debate: A Battle for the Soul of Philosophy?” argues that the perceived threat of scientism to philosophy hinges upon a confluence of two distinct, but overlapping, phenomena. The first of these phenomena is… Read More ›
Scientism or Interdisciplinarity? Robert C. Bishop
Moti Mizrahi’s “The Scientism Debate: A Battle for the Soul of Philosophy?” frames the introduction of scientific methods into philosophy as scientism (specifically a kind of weak scientism). This contrasts with the view that scientific methods only have their place… Read More ›
Warm Encouragement and Sharp Analysis for Interdisciplinary Scholars: A Review of Being an Interdisciplinary Academic, Seungmi Chung
Catherine Lyall’s Being an Interdisciplinary Academic: How Institutions Shape University Careers (2019) describes the lives of early-career interdisciplinary scholars and analyzes the difficulties and systematic problems they experience. Lyall lends encouragement both to these researchers and to those considering entering… Read More ›
Exploring What Spaces of Serendipity, Identity, and Success Can Teach Us: A Review of Being an Interdisciplinary Academic, Emma Craddock
Catherine Lyall’s (2019) Being an Interdisciplinary Academic: How Institutions Shape University Careers draws on research data to illustrate the ‘rift between the rhetoric and reality of interdisciplinarity’ (1), with the aim of stimulating discussion that can cross and ideally reconcile… Read More ›
Collaborative Review Part 3: What Makes Interdisciplinarity Unique? Kari Zacharias
“And so I said to them, why don’t we just call it education?” This statement, delivered with an exasperated laugh and the tiniest of smirks, came from a former colleague who had recently returned from an interdisciplinary conference. He was… Read More ›
Round Pegs, Square Holes: A Review of Being an Interdisciplinary Academic, Joshua Penrod
Sometimes it takes more than one discipline to write a book review. Sometimes it even takes more than one book to review a book. My goal in this brief essay is to do some justice (in the form of a… Read More ›
Collaborative Review Part 2: What Makes Interdisciplinarity Unique? Samantha Jo Fried
I want to focus in on Amanda’s question: “What does interdisciplinarity look like when it is situated within a discipline, as is the case with Science and Technology Studies?” Then, I will attempt to answer her question: “What, if anything,… Read More ›