For the first time, the major theoretical and pedagogical approaches to genre and related
issues of social construction are presented in a single volume, providing an overview of the …

How do scientists persuade colleagues from diverse fields to cross the disciplinary divide,
risking their careers in new interdisciplinary research programs? Why do some attempts to …

A metatheoretical and historiographical re-analysis of the Evolutionary Synthesis (the
process) and the Synthetic Theory (the result) leads to the following conclusion: The …

This article explores the nature of education as a vital part of human knowledge. The
argument that is presented addresses the critique of education as having epistemological …

Монография посвящена историко-сравнительному анализу различных попыток
осуществить эволюционный синтез в русском, англо-американском и немецком …

Few scientific concepts have the same amount of public resonance as the notion of
biodiversity. The article traces the creation of this relatively new concept and its impact on …

In The Sciences of the Artificial, Herbert Simon (1996, p. 51) presented a parable about an
ant: We watch an ant make his laborious way across a wind-and wavemoulded beach …

Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene illustrates the power of ambiguity in scientific
discourse. The rhetorical and epistemic resources that ambiguity provide are most apparent …

This article analyzes the power of ambiguous metaphors to present scientific novelty. Its
focus is a series of papers by the prominent population biologist WD Hamilton in which he …

Despite the general trend to embrace interdisciplinarity in post-secondary education, we
remain remarkably unclear concerning what we mean by interdisciplinarity and how it is …