Interdisciplinary Science Reviews: December 2011

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ISR is a quarterly journal that aims to set contemporary and historical developments in the sciences and technology into their wider social and cultural context and to illuminate their interrelations with the humanities and arts. It seeks out contributions that measure up to the highest excellence in scholarship but that also speak to an audience of intelligent non-specialists. It actively explores the differing trajectories of the disciplines and practices in its purview, to clarify what each is attempting to do in its own terms, so that constructive dialogue across them is strengthened. It focuses whenever possible on conceptual bridge-building and collaborative research that nevertheless respect disciplinary variation. ISR features thematic issues on broad topics attractive across the disciplines and publishes special issues derived from wide-ranging interdisciplinary colloquia and conferences.

Tuesday, 13 December 2011

NEW ISSUE: Interdisciplinary Science Reviews

Interdisciplinary Science Reviews,Volume 36, Number 4, December 2011

Table of Contents
Editorial, Willard McCarty

Scientific Visualizations: Bridge-Building between the Sciences and the Humanities via Visual Analogy`Everything one invents is true' Gustave Flaubert, Mario Petrucci

The Microbial Stages of Humanity, Charles S Cockell

Environmental History within a Revitalized Integrative Research Methodology for Today and Tomorrow, Elize S van Eeden

Difficulties of the Re-Emergent Science — the Case of Astrobiology, Urszula K Czyz˙ ewska

When Natural met Social: A Review of Collaboration between the Natural and Social Sciences, Arnout R H Fischer, Hilde Tobi, Amber Ronteltap

Putting the Brain at the Heart of General Education in the Twenty-First Century: A Proposal, Steve Fuller

View the table of contents and read the free editorial online.