I very nearly didn't apply for the job. It was a postdoc for which (according to the job description) I'd provide "intellectual leadership" to a multimillion-dollar funding initiative; and given that I barely felt able to provide intellectual leadership to what I had for breakfast, I struggled to imagine that I could be qualified. Plus, while I wrote my doctoral thesis on virtue epistemology, I'd never written a single blasted word on intellectual humility per se (it turns out that I was far from alone on this, and that was part of the problem!) Add to this the cognitive dissonance I felt while looking at an advertisement for a philosophy postdoc in a graduate school of psychology at a seminary, and you can understand why I nearly moved on to the next job application.

But I'm enormously grateful that I didn't! That first job as a Philosophy Research Fellow at the Fuller Graduate School of Psychology set my career and research trajectory in motion and, in many ways, made it what it is today. Reflecting on that experience, I want to highlight two potential hurdles for teams of researchers conducting interdisciplinary research: "the translation problem" and the "academic isolation" problem. Along the way, I'll note some ways those hurdles were overcome in our particular context.

Undoubtedly, one of the greatest challenges of working on an interdisciplinary project like the "Science of Intellectual Humility" project comes from the unsurprising fact that it involves people from multiple disciplines. Philosophers and psychologists are both (one hopes!) interested in finding truth; however, the tools and norms at work within the respective disciplines can be radically different. Very common and useful words like "evidence" or "belief" or "normative" can mean different...