1. Areas of Knowledge: Overview

3. The divisions between subjects

4. Paradigms Paradeigma (Greek)- ‘pattern’
‘a set of interrelated ideas for making sense of one or more aspects of reality’

5. Ways of Knowing and Areas of Knowledge
Do disciplines build on truths gained through Ways of Knowing?
Or do they act to correct misunderstandings and falsehoods that arise from the Ways of Knowing?

6. The relationships between subjects
multi-disciplinary: separate disciplines working together
trans-disciplinary: differences between disciplines dissolved
cross-disciplinary: one discipline interpreted in terms of another
inter-disciplinary: blanket term covering all the others

7. Is there a hierarchy of subjects?

8. C P Snow: ‘The Two Cultures’

9. Consilience
‘nature is organized by simple universal laws of physics to which all other laws and principles can eventually be reduced.’
- E. O Wilson- Consilience- The Unity of Knowledge

10. The Knowledge framework