Series Editor’s Foreword	6
	Preface	8
	Contents	12
	List of Figures	17
	1: Introduction	18
	The (Epistemic) Fundamentals of Interdisciplinarity	19
	Interdisciplinarity Studies	22
	My Alternative	22
	Does Everybody Represent?	24
	The Intermediate Layer	27
	Tools, Algorithms, and Basic Assumptions	28
	An Example	30
	Why Engage in this Kind of Madness?	33
	A Bit of Terminological Explication	34
	Targets	37
	Approaches	38
	“Distance” and “Proximity”	39
	Summing Up	40
	References	46
	2: Disciplines and Approaches	48
	What are These Things Called ‘Disciplines’?	50
	Distinctive Discussions of “Discipline”	52
	Problems of Disciplinarity	52
	Three Dimensions (Plus Some) of Disciplinarity	55
	Social Aspects Only	56
	Objects Only	57
	Objects and Tools Combined	58
	All Included?	60
	Where Does This Leave Us?	60
	Approaches	63
	Approaches vs. Fields	66
	Distance vs. Proximity Revisited	67
	More on Temporality	69
	Summing Up	70
	References	72
	3: Interdisciplinarity Studies	75
	What is Interdisciplinarity?	77
	Knowledge Generation and Integration	79
	Interdisciplinarity is Not New	81
	More Recent Developments: The Turn-Turn	83
	Literature Studies	84
	Psychoanalytic Literature Studies	85
	A Different Approach	86
	The Evolutionary Turn	87
	The Neurological Turn	90
	What is the Point?	94
	More Reasonable Reasons for Interdisciplinarity	95
	Specialisation vs. Integration	97
	Three Modes of Integration	100
	The Polymath Mode	100
	The Social Mode	100
	The Educational Mode	101
	All of the Above	101
	Science without a Core Set?	102
	Degenerating Hard Core Sets	103
	Summing Up	104
	References	107
	4: The Relevance of Philosophy	112
	Relevant Philosophical Approaches to Interdisciplinarity	115
	Kitcher’s Historical Perspective	115
	Weisberg’s Vehicle Perspective	118
	Pluralism and Representation	119
	Summing Up	122
	References	123
	5: Representation	126
	The Basics	128
	Enter Ronald Giere	131
	Constructive Realism	132
	Perspectival Realism	135
	The Expanded and Enriched X	138
	Deflation	139
	To Model (Mathematically) or Not to Model (At All)	141
	The Propositions	144
	Weisberg on Construal	145
	Use & Similarity	147
	Summing Up	149
	References	154
	6: Pluralisms, Perspectives, and Potential Problems	158
	Pluralism—What is It?	159
	The Pluralisms	163
	#1—Internal Pluralism	163
	#2—External Pluralism	164
	#3—Metaphysical (Nomological) Pluralism and CP-Clauses	164
	#4—Epistemic (Representational) Pluralism	166
	Perspectivism	167
	Perspectives of Theory	170
	Laws and Perspectives	173
	Distortions	173
	Idealisation	174
	Relocational Idealisation	178
	Approximation	179
	Distortions of Scale	180
	Simpson’s Distortions	181
	Distortion of Variance	183
	The Case of Operational Definition	189
	Operational Definition Makes Its Way into Psychopathology	193
	Current Problems Facing Operational Definition in Psychopathology	197
	Final Remarks on OD?	199
	Simpson’s Revisited	200
	Summing Up	203
	References	206
	7: Representational Crossbreeding	212
	The Simple Duplex	214
	Social Integration	217
	Target Integration	219
	Targeting a Different Target by Means of the Same Approach?	221
	Purpose Integration	221
	Approach Integration	222
	The Method	228
	Transferring Vehicles	228
	Inserting Elements of Approaches as Parts of Vehicles	230
	Relocating Elements of the Intermediate Layer	231
	Two Strategies	233
	Strategy #1: De-idealisation	234
	Strategy #2: Bold Conjectures	236
	Summing Up	237
	References	240
	8: Phenomenology Imported with EASE	243
	So, What is Psychiatry and Psychopathology?	246
	What is Schizophrenia?	248
	What is EASE, Then?	252
	The NP2014 Approach	260
	Parent Approaches?	261
	How Distant are the Parent Approaches?	264
	The Vehicle of the Integrated Approach	265
	The Target	268
	The Intermediate Layer	270
	(1) The Importance of in-Depth Qualitative Analysis	270
	(2) The Significance of Quantification	271
	The Elements	271
	Target Group Delimitations (Definitions/Algorithms)	272
	Exclusion Criteria	273
	Semi-structured Interviews, Expertise, and the Likert Scale	274
	(1) Semi-structured Interview	274
	(2) Specialists’ Categorisation	275
	(3) The Likert Scale	276
	Dichotomisation	277
	Statistical Tools	279
	The Vehicle	280
	The Verdict	280
	The Good News	285
	What Causes the Problems?	286
	To Do-List	287
	Summing Up	289
	References	293
	9: Conclusion	297
	A Brief Reflexive Moment	300
	Future Opportunities	301
	Index	303