Worldviews, Science And Us: Redemarcating Knowledge And Its Social And Ethical ImplicationsDiederik Aerts, Nicole Note, Bart D'hooghe 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 as 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 redemarcation 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. |
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Interdisciplinary Research from a Radical Constructivist Perspective Alexander Riegler | 20 |
The ChattonOckham Strategy an Alternative to the Simplicity Principle Adri Smaling | 38 |
Its Internal and External Confrontations An Essay Jan Broekaert | 59 |
To Know or Not to Know One Way or Another Roelof Oldeman | 73 |
A Naturalistic and Critical View of Social Sciences and the Humanities Hendrik Pinxten and Nicole Note | 93 |
their CultureSpecific Wellsprings Rene Devisch | 104 |
On High and Low Styles in Philosophy or Towards a Rehabilitation of the Ideal Koo van der Wal | 123 |
its Social and Ethical Implications Nicole Note Hendrik Pinxten and Diederik Aerts | 146 |
Consensus through Quantum Parliament Diederik Aerts | 189 |
Quantum Probability and Signal Analysis Sven Aerts Diederik Aerts and Franklin Schroeck | 203 |
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