Title Worldviews, science and us : redemarcating knowledge and its social and ethical implications, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, 10 June 2003 / editors, Diederik Aerts, Bart D'Hooghe, Nicole Note.

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Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific, 2005.

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Description	1 online resource (vi, 223 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references.
Summary	Essays based on meetings sponsored by the Leo Apostel Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies with the theme, "The construction of integrating worldviews."--Summary of pages 1.
Contents	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.
Note	Print version record.
Subject	Science -- Philosophy.
	Science -- Social aspects.
	Knowledge, Theory of.
	SCIENCE -- Essays.
	SCIENCE -- Nanoscience.
	SCIENCE -- Reference.
	Knowledge, Theory of. (OCoLC)fst00988194
	Science -- Philosophy. (OCoLC)fst01108336
	Science -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst01108360
Added Author	Aerts, Diederik, 1953-
	D'Hooghe, Bart.
	Note, Nicole.
Other Form:	Print version: Worldviews, science and us. Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific, ©2005 9812561900 (DLC) 2006276616 (OCoLC)62409103
ISBN	9812702040 (electronic bk.)
	9789812702043 (electronic bk.)

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