Measurement and Understanding in Science and Humanities: Interdisciplinary Approaches - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3658369760 ISBN 13: 9783658369767

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024

Synopsis

This anthology is a unique compilation of scientific contributions on the topic of measurement and understanding, showing how terms such as number, measurement, understanding, model, pattern are used in a wide variety of disciplines. Based on the results and experiences from their own projects, 23 researchers comment on the potentials and limitations of individual methodological approaches and success factors of interdisciplinary collaboration. In doing so, they sound out the different significance of quantification and empirical evidence for their own disciplines and examine the influence of methodological approaches on existing models and images. The common goal is to want to understand the world; the methods, however, are highly diverse.

About this title

About the Author

The editors and authors of the book are fellows in the WIN College of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. The scientific focus of the individual authors is broadly diversified across the entire spectrum of the sciences.

From the Back Cover

This anthology is a unique compilation of scientific contributions on the topic of measurement and understanding, showing how terms such as number, measurement, understanding, model, and pattern are used in a wide variety of disciplines. Based on results and experiences from their own projects, 23 researchers comment on the potentials and limitations of their individual methodological approaches as well as success factors of interdisciplinary collaboration. In doing so, they fathom the relative importance of quantification and empirical evidence for each of their disciplines and examine how the methodological approaches shape their existing models and images. Their common goal is to understand the world; however, their methods are highly diverse.

The Content

• Advantages and challenges of interdisciplinary work
• Examples of interdisciplinary work to measure and understand the world
• Communication of interdisciplinary work
• Success factors for interdisciplinary collaboration and conclusions
• Similarities and differences in the meaning of number and measurement between disciplines

The Target groups

• Faculty and students in all disciplines who are interested in interdisciplinary research

The editors and authors

The editors and authors of the book are fellows in the WIN Kolleg of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. The scientific focus of the individual authors is broad across the spectrum of the sciences.

This book is a translation of an original German edition. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation.

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3658369760
• ISBN 13: 9783658369767
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 292
• Editor: Schweiker Marcel, Hass Joachim, Novokhatko Anna, Halbleib Roxana