Worldviews, Science and Us

by Aerts, Diederik; Broekaert, Jan; D'Hooghe, Bart; Note, Nicole

• ISBN13: 9789814383073
• ISBN10: 9814383074
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-02-28
• Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Inc

Summary

The present volume is part of the 'Worldviews, Science and Us' series of proceedings. It contains selected contributions on the subject of bridging knowledge and its implications for our perspectives of the world. This volume also represents the proceedings of the interdisciplinary stream of the international workshop (Part 1) Times of Entanglement, 2122 September 2010 at the Minsheng Art Museum in Shanghai, People's Republic of China in the context of the Shanghai World Expo 2010 and, related cutting-edge investigations in the quantum paradigm from discussion panels organized by the Leo Apostel Center for Interdisciplinary studies within the framework of the 'Research on the Construction of Integrating Worldviews' research community set up by the Flanders Fund for Scientific Research. Further information about this research community and a full list of the associated international research centers can be found at http://www.vub.ac.be/CLEA/res/worldviews/.

Table of Contents

Interdisciplinarity and Bridging Knowledge	p. 1
What About Interdisciplinarity Within Philosophy?	p. 10
History and Philosophy of Science: From Peaceful Coexistence to Golden Age of Interdisciplinarity?	p. 26
Can an Understanding of How Culture Evolves Awaken a Sense of Meaning in Life?	p. 37
An Interdisciplinary Focus on the Concept of Causation: What Philosophy Can Learn from Psychology	p. 55
Refocusing Undecidability: Questioning the Use of the Notion of Formal Undecidability in Other Domains	p. 72
Can Economics Become a Purely Experimental Science? A Comparative Study	p. 108
Metaphysics and Cinema	p. 118
On the Role of Contextuality in the Integration of Worldviews	p. 142
Quantum Interference and Superposition in Cognition: A Theory for the Disjunction of Concepts	p. 169
Compatibility and Separability for Classical and Quantum Entanglement	p. 212
Quantum Programming	p. 229
On the Foundations of the Theory of Evolution	p. 266
Quantum Structure in Economics: Risk Versus Ambiguity	p. 281
Measuring Meaning on the World-Wide Web	p. 304
Potentiality States: Quantum versus Classical Emergence	p. 314
The Bodily Excess of a Worldview: Beyond a Theoretical Account of the World	p. 334
My Heart Will Go On: The Cybernetics of Organ Harvesting, Donor (Im)Mortality and the Politics of the Non-Self	p. 347
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