Tag: Interdisciplinarity

Analytic and Creative Thinking: A Conversation

Analytic and Creative Thinking: Conventional descriptions of the way teachers and students learn about Science and the Humanities are under-girded by the assumption that these disciplines are cognitively…

Discovery and Creativity

The advancement of civilization as it is often situated in the narrative of scientific inquiry is matched by the enlightened aims of the humanities; both are dedicated to…

Are we Important?

Werner Heisenberg in his book “Physics and Philosophy” wrote: “It is probably true quite generally that in the history of human thinking the most fruitful developments frequently take…

On the Anxiety of Influence

In this account, William E. Leuchtenburg shares the story of a seemingly routine exchange with literary scholars in the late 1970s which spurred him to new insights about…