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"Epistemology and Metaphysics in Interdisciplinary Communication: Insights from Ian Barbour and Bernard Lonergan, SJ" (General Joint Session at WMSCI 2019) Fr. Dr. Joseph Laracy Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, College of Arts and Sciences, Seton Hall University, USA Faculty member in the Department of Systematic Theology at Immaculate Conception Seminary, USA. Abstract: In light of the persistent problem of “academic silos” in the contemporary university, Nagib Callaos and others have demonstrated the importance of interdisciplinary communication for those engaged in the advancement of scientific research. Two twentieth century scholars, Ian Barbour (1923–2013) and Bernard Lonergan, SJ (1904–1984), offer a concrete approach to interdisciplinary communication by advocating a common epistemology and metaphysics for integrating traditional academic disciplines. Barbour, an experimental physicist and theologian, and Lonergan, a philosopher, theologian, and economist, both suggest a “critical realist” epistemology. Barbour’s preferred metaphysical framework for a systematic synthesis between disciplines, e.g., natural science and theology, is the process thought of Alfred North Whitehead. Lonergan, on the other hand, develops his own generalized empirical method (GEM) in which the being investigated is that which occurs within consciousness. We compare and contrast these two approaches as well as critically engage them.