This title provides a synoptic overview of the current state of interdisciplinary research, education, administration and management, and includes problem solving-knowledge that spans the disciplines and interdisciplinary fields and crosses the space between the academic communi…
Taking stock of interdisciplinarity as it nears its century mark, the 'Oxford Handbook of Interdisciplinarity' constitutes a major new reference work on the topic of interdisciplinarity, a concept of growing academic and societal importance. Interdisciplinarity is fast becoming …
Over the last century the tremendous development of disciplinary expertise – by one count, now totaling more than 4000 specialties – has bred a complementary demand for synoptic and synthesizing perspectives on knowledge. Academics, policy makers, and citizens at large are askin…
This title provides a synoptic overview of the current state of interdisciplinary research, education, administration and management, and includes problem solving-knowledge that spans the disciplines and interdisciplinary fields and crosses the space between the academic communi…
This book offers a social, political, and aesthetic critique of transhumanism and of the accelerating growth of scientific knowledge generally. Rather than improving our lives, science and technology today increasingly leave us debilitated and infantilized. It is time to restrai…