What We Do

Events

Currently the Consilience Project sponsors a colloquium series featuring speakers with interdisciplinary research interests.

Research Areas

Psychology, Philosophy, Primatology, Neuroscience, and Evolutionary Biology.

Mission

The purpose of the Consilience Project is to create a forum for interdisciplinary dialogue amongst graduate students. It is our belief that many of the scientific questions posed by the different disciplines reflect different approaches to the same underlying phenomena, rather than isolated queries unique to any particular discipline. It can only benefit our understanding of the underlying phenomena if we are exposed to the different scientific approaches used by fields outside of our own.

The Consilience Project will help to facilitate cross-disciplinary collaborative projects aimed at combining different scientific approaches to understand the underlying phenomena. In addition, the Consilience Project will strive to increase awareness and communication between the disciplines so that graduate students can take advantage of what the disciplines outside of their own have to offer.