Get Free Shipping on orders over $79
Interdisciplinarity and the Art of Human Connection : Knowing in a Complex World - Sharon Woodill
eTextbook alternate format product

Instant online reading.
Don't wait for delivery!

Interdisciplinarity and the Art of Human Connection

Knowing in a Complex World

By: Sharon Woodill

Hardcover | 16 October 2025

At a Glance

Hardcover


RRP $150.00

$134.75

10%OFF

or 4 interest-free payments of $33.69 with

 or 

Ships in 3 to 5 business days

This book examines interdisciplinarity through the lens of complexity theory, arguing for an understanding of interdisciplinarity that embraces the wisdom of complexity and not just the idea. Sharon Woodill critiques current interdisciplinary practices as often falling short of truly embracing complexity, instead grafting complexity theory onto existing reductionist frameworks that lead to disconnection.

Drawing on principles of self-organization and emergence, this book re-imagines the interdisciplinary process and integration that results. It advocates for an âepistemology of connectionâ that prioritizes human relationships, diverse perspectives, and engagement with ambiguity in knowledge practices. It examines the concept of diversity as an example of interdisciplinarity grounded in a fully-fledged complexity.

Throughout, the book advocates for a shift from capture-and-control approaches to knowledge towards an understanding of knowing as a participatory, emergent process. It emphasizes the facilitation of new insights through deep engagement with the complexity of each other and the worlds we inhabit.

More in Epistemology & The Theory of Knowledge

Lunacy : Ten False Promises of the New Space Age - Ben Bramble

RRP $34.99

$29.99

14%
OFF
Critique of Pure Reason : Penguin Classics - Immanuel Kant

RRP $35.00

$28.75

18%
OFF
The Black Swan : The Impact of the Highly Improbable - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The Denial of Death - Ernest Becker

$28.75

The Meaning of Life : The true ingredients of fulfilment - The School of Life
The Infinite Alphabet : And the Laws of Knowledge - César A. Hidalgo

RRP $59.99

$45.75

24%
OFF
On Pedantry : A Cultural History of the Know-it-All - Arnoud S. Q. Visser
The Book of Memory : Or, How to Live Forever - Mark Rowlands

RRP $29.99

$24.99

17%
OFF
How to get Philosophy Students Talking : An Instructor's Toolkit - Andrew  Fisher
Language and Decolonial Currents - Alastair  Pennycook
The Value of Feminist Rage : Epistemic and Affective Injustice - Sigrid Wallaert