WORLDVIEWS, SCIENCE AND US

WORLDVIEWS, SCIENCE AND US
Redemarcating Knowledge and Its Social and Ethical Implications

Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, 10 June 2003

CONTENTS

FRONT MATTER	i
WORLDVIEWS, SCIENCE AND US, GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES DIEDERIK AERTS, BART D’HOOGHE and NICOLE NOTE	1
ARGUMENTS IN FAVOUR OF INCLUSIVE SCIENCE ILJA MASO	8
INCLUSIVE WORLDVIEWS: INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH FROM A RADICAL CONSTRUCTIVIST PERSPECTIVE ALEXANDER RIEGLER	20
THE CHATTON-OCKHAM STRATEGY; AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE SIMPLICITY PRINCIPLE ADRI SMALING	38
THE INTRINSIC MULTIPLICITY OF SCIENCE: ITS INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL CONFRONTATIONS — AN ESSAY JAN BROEKAERT	59
TO KNOW OR NOT TO KNOW, ONE WAY OR ANOTHER ROELOF A. A. OLDEMAN	73
A NATURALISTIC AND CRITICAL VIEW OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND THE HUMANITIES HENDRIK PINXTEN and NICOLE NOTE	93
SCIENCES AND KNOWLEDGE PRACTICES: THEIR CULTURE-SPECIFIC WELLSPRINGS RENÉ DEVISCH	104
ON HIGH AND LOW STYLES IN PHILOSOPHY, OR, TOWARDS A REHABILITATION OF THE IDEAL KOO VAN DER WAL	123
TOWARDS A RE-DELINEATION OF THE HUMAN SELF-UNDERSTANDING WITHIN THE WESTERN WORLDVIEW: ITS SOCIAL AND ETHICAL IMPLICATIONS NICOLE NOTE, HENDRIK PINXTEN and DIEDERIK AERTS	146
TOWARDS A NEW DEMOCRACY: CONSENSUS THROUGH QUANTUM PARLIAMENT DIEDERIK AERTS	189
NECESSITY OF COMBINING MUTUALLY INCOMPATIBLE PERSPECTIVES IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF A GLOBAL VIEW: QUANTUM PROBABILITY AND SIGNAL ANALYSIS SVEN AERTS, DIEDERIK AERTS and FRANKLIN E. SCHROECK	203
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