Includes bibliographical references and index

A short history of knowledge formations / Peter Weingart -- A taxonomy of interdisciplinarity / Julie Thompson Klein -- Interdisciplinary cases and disciplinary knowledge / Wolfgang Krohn -- Box: prospects for interdisciplinarity / Jan C. Schmidt -- Deviant interdisciplinarity / Steve Fuller -- Against holism / Ddaniel Sarewitz -- Physical sciences / Robert P. Crease -- Box: mathematics and root interdisciplinarity / Erik Fisher and David Beltran-del-Rio -- Integrating the social sciences: theoretical knowledge, methodological tools, and practical applications / Craig Calhoun and Diana Rhoten -- Biological sciences / Warren Burggren [and others] -- Art and music research / Julie Thompson Klein and Richard Parncutt -- Engineering / Patricia J. Culligan and Feniosky Peña-Mora -- Religious studies / Sarah E. Fredericks -- Information research on interdisciplinarity / Carole L. Palmer --Box: transcending discipline-based library classifications / Richard Szostak -- A field of its own: the emergence of science and technology studies / Sheila Jasanoff -- Humanities and technology in the information age / Cathy N. Davidson -- Box: vectors: an interdisciplinary journal / Tara McPherson -- Media and communication / Adam Briggle and Clifford G. Christians -- Cognitive science / Paul Thagard -- Computation and simulation / Johannes Lenhard -- Interdisciplinarity in ethics and the ethics of interdisciplinarity / Anne Balsamo and Carl Mitcham -- Design as problem solving / Prasad Boradkar -- Box: InnovationSpace at Arizona State University / Prasad Boradkar -- Learning to synthesize: the development of interdisciplinary understanding / veronica Boix Mansilla -- Box: ZiF / Ipke Wachsmuth -- Box: creativity and interdisciplinarity / Thomas Kowall -- Evaluating interdiscipliary research / Katri Huutoniemi -- Peer review / J. Britt Holbrook -- Policy challenges and university reform / Clark A. Miller -- Box: transdisciplinary efforts at public science agencies: NSF's SciSIP program / Erin Christine Moore -- Administering interdisciplinary programs / Beth A. Casey -- Undergraduate general education / William H. Newell -- Box: the association for integrative studies / William H. Newell -- Interdisciplinary pedagogies in higher education / Deborah DeZure -- Facilitating interdisciplinary scholars / Stephanie Pfirman and Paula J.S. Martin -- Doctoral student and early career academic perspectives / Jessica K. Graybill and Vivek Shandas -- A memoir of an interdisciplinary career / Daniel Callahan -- Solving problems through transdisciplinary research / Gertrude Hirsch Hadorn, Christian Pohl, and Gabriele Bammer -- Box: td-net -- the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences' forum for transdisciplinary research / Christian Pohl and Gertrude Hirsch Hadorn -- Box: sustainability foresight: participative approaches to sustainable utility sectors / Bernhard Truffer -- Systems thinking / Sytse Strijbos -- Box: mapping interdisciplinary research / Katy Börner and Kevin W. Boyack -- Cross-disciplinary team science initiatives: research, training, and translation / Daniel Stokols [and others] -- Box: managing consensus in interdisciplinary teams / Rico Defila and Antonietta Di Giulio -- The environment / J. Baird Callicott -- Box: biocultural conservation in Cape Horn: the Magellanic woodpecker as a charismatic species / Ximena Arango [and others] -- Health sciences and health services / Jennifer L. Terpstra [and others]-- Box: telehospice: a case study in healthcare intervention research / Elaine M. Wittensberg-Lyles, Debra Parker Oliver, and George Demiris -- Law / Marilyn Averill -- Risk / Sven Ove Hansson -- Corporate innovation / Bruce A. Vojak, Raymond L. Price, and Abbie Griffin