{"title":"The good, the bad and the lab: a review of Nancy J. Nersessian’s <i>Interdisciplinarity in the Making</i>","authors":"Emil C. Toescu, Adam Tamas Tuboly","doi":"10.1080/03080188.2023.2212200","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03080188.2023.2212200","url":null,"abstract":"Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size AcknowledgementsBoth authors were supported by the MTA Lendület Values and Science Research Group.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.Notes1 Note, however, that some synthetical efforts, emphasizing the cognitive-natural and the social-historical were already emerging, as in David Bloor's (Citation1999) work.2 The illustration on the cover of the book is an output of this system: neuronal network ‘drawing’, using the mechanical arm.Additional informationNotes on contributorsEmil C. ToescuEmil C. Toescu is a neuroscientist with a special interest in the neurobiology of ageing and is involved with a number of academic and educational projects focusing on the interface between (medical) sciences and humanities. He is a Senior Researcher at the Institute for Transdisciplinary Discoveries, Medical School, University of Pécs (Hungary), Honorary Fellow at the Department of Liberal Arts and Natural Sciences, University of Birmingham (UK), member of the MTA (Hungarian Academy of Sciences) Lendület Values and Science Research Group, member of the Steering Committee and lead of the Education Committee of the Doctor as a Humanist foundation. He runs and contributes to a number of Medical Humanities courses.Adam Tamas TubolyAdam Tamas Tuboly is a philosopher of science, leader of the MTA (Hungarian Academy of Sciences) Lendület Values and Science research group and research fellow at the Institute for Transdisciplinary Discoveries, Medical School, University of Pécs. He works on the historical questions of philosophy of science and aims to track down the demarcation between science and pseudo-science.","PeriodicalId":50352,"journal":{"name":"Interdisciplinary Science Reviews","volume":"246 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135992885","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘Psychedelic Justice: Towards a Diverse and Equitable Psychedelic Culture’","authors":"Mark Juhan Schunemann","doi":"10.1080/03080188.2023.2239528","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03080188.2023.2239528","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50352,"journal":{"name":"Interdisciplinary Science Reviews","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43986228","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Choosing between prediction and explanation in geological engineering: lessons from psychology","authors":"A. Mitelman, Beverly Yang, D. Elmo, Yahel Giat","doi":"10.1080/03080188.2023.2234216","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03080188.2023.2234216","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In their highly influential paper, Yarkoni, Tal, and Jacob Westfall. 2017. “Choosing Prediction over Explanation in Psychology: Lessons from Machine Learning.” Perspectives on Psychological Science 12 (6):1100–1122. https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691617693393 the authors highlight difficulties in traditional explanatory research in the field of psychology and argue in favour of novel data-driven science. By applying machine-learning methods to large data sets, predictive power has been shown to increase significantly. Geological engineers are responsible for a wide range of applications, including the design of tunnels, dams, foundations, and mines. While the field of geological engineering stands on solid mechanistic grounds, we argue that its predictive aspect aligns more closely with psychology than other mechanistic sciences. We therefore propose a paradigm shift in geological engineering research towards a prediction-centric approach. Potentially, this could enhance cost-effectiveness in structural design and lead to substantial societal savings.","PeriodicalId":50352,"journal":{"name":"Interdisciplinary Science Reviews","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43327149","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pei Wang, Erin L Abner, Changrui Liu, David W Fardo, Frederick A Schmitt, Gregory A Jicha, Linda J Van Eldik, Richard J Kryscio
{"title":"Estimating random effects in a finite Markov chain with absorbing states: Application to cognitive data.","authors":"Pei Wang, Erin L Abner, Changrui Liu, David W Fardo, Frederick A Schmitt, Gregory A Jicha, Linda J Van Eldik, Richard J Kryscio","doi":"10.1111/stan.12286","DOIUrl":"10.1111/stan.12286","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Finite Markov chains with absorbing states are popular tools for analyzing longitudinal data with categorical responses. The one step transition probabilities can be defined in terms of fixed and random effects but it is difficult to estimate these effects due to many unknown parameters. In this article we propose a three-step estimation method. In the first step the fixed effects are estimated by using a marginal likelihood function, in the second step the random effects are estimated after substituting the estimated fixed effects into a joint likelihood function defined as a h-likelihood, and in the third step the covariance matrix for the vector of random effects is estimated using the Hessian matrix for this likelihood function. An application involving an analysis of longitudinal cognitive data is used to illustrate the method.</p>","PeriodicalId":50352,"journal":{"name":"Interdisciplinary Science Reviews","volume":"16 1","pages":"304-321"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11415262/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87630240","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What to do about the woo? Philosophy and Psychedelics. Frameworks for Exceptional Experience","authors":"Andy Letcher","doi":"10.1080/03080188.2023.2233245","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03080188.2023.2233245","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50352,"journal":{"name":"Interdisciplinary Science Reviews","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42761811","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Thinking again: enaction as a resource for ‘practice as research’ in theatre and performance","authors":"Maiya Murphy","doi":"10.1080/03080188.2023.2215024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03080188.2023.2215024","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In the context of global research culture, practitioner-researchers in theatre and performance have consistently struggled to best account for the embodied and emergent qualities of their subjects. As methodologies for ‘practice as research’ (PaR) in theatre and performance have developed since the 1990s, artistic researchers have often continued to define themselves against scientific conceptions of thinking, knowledge, and research to highlight the specific efficacies of artistic practice. I argue that this strategy genuinely hinders researchers, and that interdisciplinary approaches that move across the sciences, humanities, and arts are the key to robust accounts of theatre and performance. By revisiting a seminal PaR performance project, Joanne ‘Bob’ Whalley and Lee Miller’s Partly Cloudy, Chance of Rain (2002), I suggest how interdisciplinary approaches such as enaction from the cognitive sciences should be integrated into PaR methodologies to better address the complexity and richness of embodiment and emergence in theatre and performance.","PeriodicalId":50352,"journal":{"name":"Interdisciplinary Science Reviews","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42589987","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Why do we engage (and keep engaging) in tragic and sad stories? Negativity bias and engagement in narratives eliciting negative feelings","authors":"J. Simon","doi":"10.1080/03080188.2023.2193800","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03080188.2023.2193800","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Our human tendency to remember more and pay more attention to negative events (rather than positive ones) may be at the core of our ‘enjoyment’ of the arts. Indeed, if we engage in sad and tragic stories, it may well be because we have a built-in propensity to be affected by situations eliciting negative emotions (i.e. a psychological phenomenon called the ‘Negativity Bias’). A good example of this seemingly paradoxical tendency is Fernando de Rojas’s Celestina (1499). Although the premise of the story is that of an amour courtois between two young lovers, Calisto and Melibea, the story ends with a suicide and, in between, there are also one murder, one accident leading to death and two executions. And yet, it was a bestseller at the time. This attraction to stories that elicit negative affects is also hypothesized to be the result of evolutionary pressures.","PeriodicalId":50352,"journal":{"name":"Interdisciplinary Science Reviews","volume":"48 1","pages":"460 - 463"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43013815","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"When a woman becomes a plant: looking at philosophical discourses through literary narratives","authors":"C. Canavas","doi":"10.1080/03080188.2023.2193797","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03080188.2023.2193797","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Transcending the human perspective has always been a challenge – for philosophical as well as for literary and scientific narratives. The present study focuses on such a transcendence from humans to plants through a joint reading of a philosophical and a literary narrative in a form of interdisciplinary conversation. Instead of interpreting literature by means of philosophical commentaries, the philosophical narrative itself will be focused and illuminated through the literary text. The essay La vie des plantes (The Life of Plants) (2016) by Emanuele Coccia is chosen as the philosophical component of this approach. The literary lens for focusing on Coccia’s phenomenological treatise enacts the imagery concerning the gradual transformation of a woman into a plant in the story ‘The Fruit of my Woman’ published in 1997 by the South Korean author Han Kang.","PeriodicalId":50352,"journal":{"name":"Interdisciplinary Science Reviews","volume":"48 1","pages":"559 - 569"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48625518","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Science and literature: the importance of differences","authors":"G. Levine","doi":"10.1080/03080188.2023.2239108","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03080188.2023.2239108","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The long history of the relations between science and literature reveals a constant pattern of hostility. This paper argues that there has rarely been a genuine ‘conversation’ and that attempts to reconcile the fields have largely been unsuccessful. The effort to assimilate science to literature is understandable and in certain respects appropriate, but their radical differences, particularly via the distinction between fact and value, are permanent conditions. This paper argues that the healthiest and most fruitful relation between science and literature is one in which literary critics sustain their work of critique, not to enter the internal workings of science but to contextualize science and set against scientific activity aesthetic and ethical criteria.","PeriodicalId":50352,"journal":{"name":"Interdisciplinary Science Reviews","volume":"48 1","pages":"570 - 583"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45035923","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lidia Bocanegra Barbecho, Salvador Ros Muñoz, Elena González-Blanco García, M. Toscano
{"title":"Digital humanities at global scale","authors":"Lidia Bocanegra Barbecho, Salvador Ros Muñoz, Elena González-Blanco García, M. Toscano","doi":"10.1080/03080188.2023.2193799","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03080188.2023.2193799","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The incorporation of the humanities into digital transformation processes resulted in the emergence of a new research field called digital humanities. This new field has its origin in the beginning of the second half of the twentieth century. From the research point of view, through the analysis of the scientific production of the main academic databases, we provide here an overview of the international panorama of digital humanities, looking at the main countries, institutions, areas of knowledge and leading topics in this discipline.","PeriodicalId":50352,"journal":{"name":"Interdisciplinary Science Reviews","volume":"48 1","pages":"446 - 459"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46229795","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}