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Book SynopsisScience without Boundaries discusses the many issues involved in going beyond disciplinary research practices in science, politics and society, and addresses the complexities of their interface. Governments and politicians are increasingly calling upon the scientific community to deal with global challenges such as climate change, poverty, international governance, peace-making et cetera. These are calls for interdisciplinary research - calls to deal with the interaction of parts in complex systems. The book addresses questions like these: -Does interdisciplinary research fit into the overall disciplinary organization of the sciences? -Does interdisciplinary research meet the high scientific standards of the research community? -How does the science community adopt to changing circumstances? -How responsive is the science community to social and political needs? -To what extent do governments intervene to influence science? -What pattern of interaction exists between politics, socie
Trade ReviewThis is a broadly-focused and ambitious book by someone solidly grounded in the theory and practice of interdisciplinary research. * Integrative Pathways *
Table of ContentsChapter 1 List of Figures Chapter 2 Abbreviations Chapter 3 Preface Chapter 4 Chapter 1: Interdisciplinary Science and Knowledge: What are They? Chapter 5 Chapter 2: Politics and Science: Partners in Arms? Chapter 6 Chapter 3: The Synthetic Entities, Concepts, and Methodologies of Academic Interdisciplinarity Chapter 7 Chapter 4: The Science War, Positivism, Post-Positivism, and Interdisciplinarity Chapter 8 Chapter 5: From Theory to Practice: The Case of INSROP Chapter 9 Chapter 6: Post-Academic and Post-Normal Science, and Preconditions of Interdisciplinarity Chapter 10 Index Chapter 11 Selected Bibliography
