Worldviews, science and us: redemarcating knowledge and its social and ethical implications, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, 10 June 2003
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Language:English
Published: Singapore World Scientific 2005
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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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (vi, 223 p.)
ISBN:1281898139
9781281898135
9789812561909
9789812702043
9812561900
9812702040

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