CARL GOMBRICH - BLOG

Below is the text of a short talk I gave at a conference on Liberal Arts organised by Benedictus on Friday 24 June 2016. * I’m not sure...

I think that most important decisions, realisations and insights in life are essentially irrational, or a least a-rational, processes. ...

In some ways the concept of interdisciplinarity is easy: when doing research or when learning, follow the problem, not ‘the subject’....

An occasional paper given at The Faculty Institute of Graduate Studies (FIGS) within the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at UCL November,...

This is a question I am increasingly asked. It’s a well fair question to someone leading a big course which includes a lot of innovation....

The work of Fernand Gobet and Herbert Simon seems to indicate that expertise is ‘domain specific’. That is, you can only learn to be an...

Some of the most sceptical remarks about a liberal/interdisciplinary education come from those who are experts in established academic...

I had an excellent day at the PELeCON at Plymouth University, despite a mad dash to get there and a chest infection. I learned a great...

A tweet about this conference on ‘Promises’ has me thinking about interdisciplinarity in education: the promises it holds and the risks...

I feel at risk once again of getting sucked into the discipline of interdisciplinarity, prompted this time by some excellent articles on...

The notion that 10,000 hours is what is required to reach expertise in a given area has been popularised by Malcolm Gladwell and appeared...

I hold that you get the best understanding of something by looking at it from many different angles. You can think of this as...