Browsing by Author "Gottlieb, Stephen"
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Access to Interdisciplinary Information: Setting the Problem
Fiscella, Joan B. (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 1989)Identifying and locating interdisciplinary literature, and ideas and information that reside in different disciplines, poses problems for researchers and students. Using electronic means of access, such as online indexes ... -
Arguing for the Rainforest: High-Tech Topoi and the Value(s) of a Database
Sebberson, David (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 1992)When the World Bank created its Environment Department, no institutional mechanism existed to create, collect, or disseminate environmental information that had accumulated in the Bank. Considering the ethical and political ... -
Being Interdisciplinary is So Very Hard to Do
Fish, Stanley (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 1991) -
Beware of Pidgin Minds: Pitfalls and Promises of Interdisciplinarity in Undergraduate Education
Cerroni-Long, E. L.; Long, Roger D. (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 1995)This paper discusses interdisciplinarity in undergraduate education. Having been involved with the design and administration of a major interdisciplinary program, the authors of this paper wish to describe the drawbacks ... -
Book Review: Robert K. Wallace. Melville & Turner: Spheres of Love and Fright
Gottlieb, Stephen A. (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 1995) -
Co-teaching Engineering and Writing: Learning about Programming, Teamwork, and Communication
Rehling, Louise; Hollaar, Lee (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 1997)This study describes the rationales, method, and outcomes of a software engineering course that was cotaught by professors from the disciplines of computer science and writing. The course emphasized both teamwork and ... -
Consciousness and Linguistic Competency: Making Interdisciplinary Choices
Vocate, Donna R. (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 1991)A difficult problem for interdisciplinary study is deciding what constructs from other fields will comport well with the concerns of one's own academic area. Consciousness is a crucial concept for any discipline concerned ... -
Crossing of Boundaries: Interdisciplinarity as an Opportunity for Universities in the 1990s?
Vosskamp, Wilhelm (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 1994)This essay discusses interdisciplinarity as a theoretical, historical, and political scholarly issue. Vosskamp emphasizes, first and foremost, that interdisciplinarity is both dependent upon and indebted to disciplinarity ... -
David Bohm's Theory of the Implicate Order: Implications for Holistic Thought Processes
Dabrowski, Irene J. (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 1995)David Bohm's theory of quantum physics, which focuses on the schism between matter and consciousness, is discussed in terms of positivist knowledge and the interdisciplinary holistic paradigm. This paper examines ... -
Esperantists in a Tower of Babel
Becher, Tony (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 1994)The problems and possibilities of interdisciplinarity are explored in this essay from the perspective of a favorably-disposed agnostic. It is argued that a piecemeal, step-by-step approach may prove more effective in helping ... -
Fractals or Fish: Does a Space for Interdisciplinarity Exist?
Mackey, J. Linn (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 1995)Stanley Fish has argued that being interdisciplinary is impossible. He claims to base this on an epistemology of deconstruction. This paper examines Fish's case against living interdisciplinary. It shows that his arguments ... -
Hearing, Smelling, Tasting, Feeling, Seeing: The Role of the Arts in Making Sense Out of the Academy
Carp, Richard M. (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 1995) -
Higher Education Leadership: Where and Who are the Interdisciplinarians? An Introductory Story
Baer, Linda L.; Duly, Leslie C.; Weir, Ivan L. (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 1991) -
Honoring the World-Soul
Lewin, Philip (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 1991)James Hillman speaks of the need for "a psychology that returns psychic reality to the world," that restores the Renaissance cosmology of an anima mundi. In this essay, I present an argument for an imaginal epistemology ... -
How Libraries Cope with Interdisciplinarity: The Case of Women's Studies
Searing, Susan E. (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 1992) -
How Was the Bow and Arrow Invented? An Investigation of its Origins
GuangYan, Ma (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 1995) -
In the Absence of a Paradigm: The Construction of Interdisciplinary Research
Rosenblum, Don (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 1997) -
Integrating in the Accusative: The Daily Papers of Interwar Hildesheim
Bergerson, Andrew Stuart (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 1997)What are the benefits and drawbacks of using objects as sources for an integrative approach? This essay considers the example of the daily papers in interwar Hildesheim. One read the daily paper initially as a means to ... -
Integration without Confusion
Broudy, H.S. (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 1991) -
Interdisciplinarity and the Canon of Art History
Kraft, Selma (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 1989)With the recent overthrow of the canon of art history, interest in works of art as aesthetic form is being replaced by interest in them as representations of meaning. Not only are methods and theories of disciplines other ...