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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Like utopia, another byproduct of our yearning for perfection, consilience, the dream of total knowledge, can serve as a useful goad to the imagination, as long as we see it as an unreachable ideal.
From Scientific American • Jun. 25, 2021
“With something as fast-moving as COVID-19, we have an urgent need for consilience, but many members of the scientific community are more isolated than usual,” Rando explains.
From Nature • Mar. 30, 2020
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
He was really the first person to show how consilience could be achieved and he showed it, not just to other scientists, but to anyone and everyone who would listen.
From Scientific American • Sep. 13, 2011
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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