This volume contains reflections and research on interdisciplinarity by practitioners and various scientists from the various disciplines of cognitive science. This book includes overviews of theory on interdisciplinary research and education, as well as

Sharon J. Derry, Christian D. Schunn, Morton Ann Gernsbacher

Contents: Preface. S.J. Derry, C.D. Schunn, Introduction to the Study of Interdisciplinarity: A Beautiful But Dangerous Beast. Part I: Theories and Frameworks.D.T. Campbell, Ethnocentrism of Disciplines and the Fish-Scale Model of Omniscience. J.T. Klein, Interdisciplinary Teamwork: The Dynamics of Collaboration and Integration. A.M. O'Donnell, S.J. Derry, Cognitive Processes in Interdisciplinary Groups: Problems and Possibilities. Part II: Studies of Interdisciplinarity in the Wild.C. Goodwin, Seeing in Depth. R. Hall, R. Stevens, T. Torralba, Disrupting Representational Infrastructure in Conversations Across Disciplines. S.L. Star, Categories and Cognition: Material and Conceptual Aspects of Large-Scale Category Systems. L.A. DuRussel, S.J. Derry, Schema (Mis)Alignment in Interdisciplinary Teamwork. Part III: Studies on Cognitive Science.J.T. Bruer, Cognitive Science: Interdisciplinary and Intradisciplinary Collaboration. S.L. Epstein, Making Interdisciplinary Collaboration Work. Y. Rogers, M. Scaife, A. Rizzo, Interdisciplinarity: An Emergent or Engineered Process? C.D. Schunn, K. Crowley, T. Okada, Cognitive Science: Interdisciplinary Now and Then. P. Thagard, Being Interdisciplinary: Trading Zones in Cognitive Science.