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.Upcoming Events
(Nothing currently scheduled. Please check back soon!)Reading Group
Consilience Project Winter 2012 Reading Group:
"An Interdisciplinary Approach to Free Will"
Meetings: Tuesdays during Winter Quarter 2012, 3:00 p.m., University Hall 214
Readings for Tuesday, January 31: Robert Kane, "The Contours of the Contemporary Free Will Debate (part 2)" (from the 2nd edition of the Oxford Handbook of Free Will)
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.