Discourse, Practice, Context: From HPS to Interdisciplinary Science Studies

Discourse as practice: from Bourdieu to Brandom

This paper investigates Robert Brandom’s programme of logical expressivism and in the process attempts to clarify his use of the term practice, by means of a detailed comparison with the works of sociologist and anthropologist Pierre Bourdieu. It turns out that the two scholars have a number of concerns in common, including the means by which core practices can be amalgamated into more sophisti...

Research and Practice in Applied Linguistics: Exploring Discourse in Context and in Action

Preparing health science students for interdisciplinary professional practice.

In 2002, a number of lecturers from different clinical schools within the Faculty of Health Sciences at La Trobe University embarked on the development of a new interdisciplinary professional practice subject to be undertaken by all final-year undergraduate health science students. The subject was designed to better prepare students for their first professional appointment by introducing them t...

Summary Cognitive Science Ph.D. Program, Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies,

We outline the notion of trust and two formal models developed to solve the trust problem in multi-agent systems. The limitations of these models, and their similarities with classical AI models (which stress centrally-stored representations of the world) are examined. We then consider trust as a Distributed Cognition problem, and suggest an agent design framework, inspired by Distributed Cogni...

Housing and Health: From Interdisciplinary Principles to Professional Practice

This paper suggests that there is a need for innovative approaches in the complex field of housing and health. It suggests that current shortcomings in academic research and professional practice are mainly the result of a narrow vision that does not address the fundamental issues at stake. In contrast to traditional disciplinary approaches which are sectoral, interdisciplinarity offers a broad...