consilience
Americannoun
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the practice of drawing from different academic disciplines to study, analyze, or explain a phenomenon in a unified way.
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cooperation or collaboration between two or more typically isolated groups, schools of thought, etc.
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concurrence or coincidence; agreement.
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The enduring appeal of consilience makes it worth revisiting.
From Scientific American • Jun. 25, 2021
Another consilience booster is psychologist and megapundit Steven Pinker, who praised Wilson’s “excellent” book in 1998 and calls for consilience between science and the humanities in his 2018 bestseller Enlightenment Now.
From Scientific American • Jun. 25, 2021
This spirit is also captured in the idea of consilience put forward by polymath William Whewell in the mid-nineteenth century and popularized in the 1990s by naturalist E. O. Wilson.
From Nature • Jan. 22, 2018
Unlike consilience, triangulation suggests the deliberate use of different methods.
From Nature • Jan. 22, 2018
Wilson calls "consilience": the bridging of science and humanities through an understanding of how the mind works.
From Time Magazine Archive
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