A cognitive ethnography of how bioengineering scientists create innovative modeling
methods. In this first full-scale, long-term cognitive ethnography by a philosopher of science …

The paper frames interdisciplinary research as creating complex, distributed cognitive-
cultural systems. It introduces and elaborates on the method of cognitive ethnography as a …

Humanities computing is an 'interdiscipline'concerned with the application of computing to
the arts and letters. Although it has been practised since the late 1940s, it has only recently …

Proponents of engineering and design approaches to biology aim to make interdisciplinary
bioscience research faster and more reproducible. This paper outlines and deploys a …

This paper links two domains of recent interest in science and technology studies,
complexity and ignorance, in the context of knowledge practices observed among synthetic …

Abstract The National Science Foundation (NSF) in the United States, like many other
funding agencies all over the globe, has made large investments in interdisciplinary …

Some scholars dismiss the distinction between basic and applied science as passé, yet
substantive assumptions about this boundary remain obdurate in research policy, popular …

This exciting collaboration between a biologist and a philosopher explores the meaning of
the scientific worldview and how it plays out in our everyday lives. The authors investigate …

23.1 Background Academic research is an integral component of the knowledge society as it
developed across the twentieth century. Stokes defines the leading paradigm for the science …

This chapter explores the relationship of creativity, design, and transdisciplinarity, with
emphasis on collaborative research. It sorts through definitions of the core terms in order to …