ABSTRACT
Since many crucial contemporary problems demand interdisciplinary research—not least, problems connected with wisdom and virtue—this chapter analyzes challenges associated with research of this kind. It shows that the theoretical, practical, and interpersonal issues concerned are deeply interconnected. Thus, it explores some specific issues this team confronted, not least issues in the philosophy of science, and how we tried to deal with them constructively to carry out our project. Many of our questions and methods developed processually, in the course of confronting these issues; it was not possible to define them all rigidly in advance. This yielded numerous creative contributions, as did our cooperation in interpreting results. Not least, we learned a great deal about the “cultures of reasoning” that structure different theoretical and disciplinary arguments in the human sciences. We conclude too that not only academic excellence but also patience, especially in terms of tolerating positions that initially appear hard to understand, is key to executing projects like this one.
