Preface; Introduction to the Study of Interdisciplinarity: A Beautiful but Dangerous Beast; I: Theories and Frameworks; 1 Ethnocentrism of Disciplines and the Fish-Scale Model of Omniscience; 2 Interdisciplinary Teamwork: The Dynamics of Collaboration and Integration; 3 Cognitive Processes in Interdisciplinary Groups: Problems and Possibilities; II: Studies of Interdisciplinarity in the Wild; 4 Seeing in Depth; 5 Disrupting Representational Infrastructure in Conversations Across Disciplines; 6 Categories and Cognition: Material and Conceptual Aspects of Large-Scale Category Systems
Summary
This book calls attention to a serious need to study the problems and processes of interdisciplinary inquiry; to reflect on the current state of scientific knowledge regarding interdisciplinary collaboration; and to encourage research that studies interdisciplinary cognition in relation to the ecological contexts in which it occurs
