The good, the bad and the lab: a review of Nancy J. Nersessian’s Interdisciplinarity in the Making

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Acknowledgements

Both authors were supported by the MTA Lendület Values and Science Research Group.

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Notes

1 Note, however, that some synthetical efforts, emphasizing the cognitive-natural and the social-historical were already emerging, as in David Bloor's (1999) work.

2 The illustration on the cover of the book is an output of this system: neuronal network ‘drawing’, using the mechanical arm.

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Emil C. Toescu

Emil 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 Tuboly

Adam 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.