Worldviews, science and us redemarcating knowledge and its social and ethical implications, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, 10 June 2003 (World Scientific, 2005)
Includes bibliographical references
Essays based on meetings sponsored by the Leo Apostel Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies with the theme, "The construction of integrating worldviews."--Summary of p. 1
Worldviews, science and us, global perspectives -- Arguments in favour of inclusive science -- Inclusive worldviews: interdisciplinary research from a radical constructivist perspective -- The chatton-ockham strategy; an alternative to the simplicity principle -- The intrinsic multiplicity of science: Its internal and external confrontations -- an essay -- To know or not to know, one way or another -- A naturalistic and critical view of social sciences and the humanities -- Sciences and knowledge practices: their culture-specific wellsprings -- On high and low styles in philosophy, or, towards a rehabilitation of the ideal -- Towards a re-delineation of the human self-understanding within the western worldview: its social and ethical implications -- Towards a new democracy: consensus through quantum parliament -- Necessity of combining mutually incompatible perspectives in the construction of a global view: quantum probability and signal analysis