Worldviews, Science and Us: Redemarcating Knowledge and Its Social and Ethical Implications

by Aerts, Diederik

• ISBN13: 9789812561909
• ISBN10: 9812561900
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-09-01
• Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Inc

Summary

This publication features an interdisciplinary group of contributors which questions aspects of today's worldviews and science that are often taken for granted and tacitly determine the boundaries of what is generally conceived of us the 'world' and 'science'. Some authors stress that existing demarcations are obsolete and often prevent new insights. Others show how they influence the way people perceive themselves and believe the world ontologically to be, determining people's actions and the social fabric. There are yet others who point out how a redemarcatian may stimulate the development of knowledge acquisition and social well-being. Examples of how bridging knowledge between different fields leads to new crucial insights, while identifying the pattern of too strict a demarcation preventing such insights, are also analyzed in this volume.

Table of Contents

Worldviews, Science and Us, Global Perspectives	1	(7)
Diederik Aerts, Bart D'Hooghe and Nicole Note
Arguments in Favour of Inclusive Science	8	(12)
Ilja Maso
Inclusive Worldviews: Interdisciplinary Research from a Radical Constructivist Perspective	20	(18)
Alexander Riegler
The Chatton–Ockham Strategy; an Alternative to the Simplicity Principle	38	(21)
Adri Smaling
The Intrinsic Multiplicity of Science: Its Internal and External Confrontations — An Essay	59	(14)
Jan Broekaert
To Know or Not to Know, One Way or Another	73	(20)
Roelof Oldeman
A Naturalistic and Critical View of Social Sciences and the Humanities	93	(11)
Hendrik Pinxten and Nicole Note
Sciences and Knowledge Practices: their Culture-Specific Wellsprings	104	(19)
René Devisch
On High and Low Styles in Philosophy, or, Towards a Rehabilitation of the Ideal	123	(23)
Koo van der Wal
Towards a Re-Delineation of the Human Self-Understanding within the Western Worldview: its Social and Ethical Implications	146	(43)
Nicole Note, Hendrik Pinxten and Diederik Aerts
Towards a New Democracy: Consensus through Quantum Parliament	189	(14)
Diederik Aerts
Necessity of Combining Mutually Incompatible Perspectives in the Construction of a Global View: Quantum Probability and Signal Analysis	203
Sven Aerts, Diederik Aerts and Franklin Schroeck