Science without boundaries
Subtitle: interdisciplinarity in research, society and politics
By: Willy Østreng
Publisher: University Press of America
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 311
ISBN-13: 9780761848301; 9780761848318
Subjects: Recherche scientifique; Interdisciplinary research; Social aspects; Interdisciplinarité; Political aspects; Research
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Interdisciplinary Science and Knowledge : What Are They?; title: Politics and Science : Partners in Arms?; title: The Synthetic Entities, Concepts and Methodologies of Academic Interdisciplinarity; title: The Science War, Positivism, Post-Positivism and Interdisciplinarity; title: From Theory to Practice : The Case of INSROP; title: Post-Academic and Post-Normal Science, and the Preconditions of Interdisciplinarity.