ABSTRACT
Inquiry is one of the oldest areas of research in cognitive science, and one of the most interdisciplinary, drawing upon social and cognitive psychology, computer science, philosophy, and educational research. It also demonstrates how cognitive science can flourish at the intersection of theory and practice, with findings from one informing, constraining, and validating the other. There are obstacles to fully realizing this integration, however. Differences in population, setting, methodology, and epistemology have resulted in a patchwork of ideas that we have not quilted together into a functional unit.
