Worldviews, science and us : interdisciplinary perspectives on worlds, cultures and society / / editors, Diederik Aerts ... [et al.]

• Pubblicazione: Hackensack, N.J., : World Scientific, 2011
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (227 p.)
• Disciplina: 303.483
• Soggetto topico: Science - Philosophy; Science - Social aspects; Knowledge, Theory of
• Altri autori: AertsDiederik <1953->
• Note generali: "Leo Apostel Center, Brussels Free University, August 2005; July 2008; September 2010."
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: CONTENTS; Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Worlds, Cultures and Society Diederik Aerts, Bart D'Hooghe, Rik Pinxten and Immanuel Wallerstein; Why Consciousness has No Plural Koen Stroeken; 1. Introduction; 2. Towards an Anthropic Quantology; 3. Meaning is Matter; 4. Infinity and Contingency; 5. Self-Organization as Free Destiny; 6. Conclusion: Physical Dualism; Acknowledgments; References; The Relevance of a Non-Colonial View on Science and Knowledge for an Open Perspective on the World Rik Pinxten; 1. The Colonial Attitude; 2. Overcoming the Colonial Attitude ; 3. Anthropology Looks in its MirrorReferences; An Atlas for the Social World: What Should It (not) Look Like? Interdisciplinarity and Pluralism in the Social Sciences Jeroen Van Bouwel; 1. Introduction; 2. The Social Sciences, the Puzzle and the Maps; 3. Interdisciplinary Strategies: Collaboration and Division of Labour between the Social Scientific Disciplines; 3.1. Imperialism or Colonisation; 3.2. Insulation; 3.3. Collaboration Leading to a New Synthesis; 3.4. The Question-Driven Strategy; 4. Defending Question-Driven Interdisciplinarity for Drawing the Atlas ; 4.1. Providing Good Explanations4.2. Interdisciplinary Strategies Evaluated; 4.3. Defending Question-Driven Interdisciplinarity; 5. Elaborating the Atlas in Economics; 5.1. The Impact of Globalisation; 5.2. Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy in Economics; 5.3. Critical Realism in Economics and its Pleas for Pluralism; 5.4. Question-Driven Interdisciplinarity and the Map Metaphor; 6. Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References; Worlds of Legitimate Welfare Arrangements: A Realistic Utopia on Pensions Patricia Frericks and Robert Maier; 1. Introduction; 2. Norms Derived from the Dynamic of Citizenship ; 3. Preconditions and Characteristics of Pension Systems4. Male Breadwinner Systems and (Limited) Individualization: Non-Fit of Pension Systems; 5. Realistic Utopia; 5.1. Basic Pensions; 5.2. Complementary Pensions; 5.2.1. Second layer pensions; 5.2.2. Third layer pensions; 6. Coming Full Circle: Citizenship and Pensions; 7. Final Remarks; References; Imagination and Empathy as Conditions for Interpersonal Understanding in the Context of a Facilitating Worldview Hans Alma and Adri Smaling; 1. Introduction; 2. Criticisms on Empathic Understanding; 2.1. Empirical-Analytical Philosophy ; 2.2. Hermeneutic Philosophy3. Appreciations of Empathic Understanding; 3.1. Philosophy of Science; 3.2. Phenomenological Philosophy; 3.3. Psychotherapy and Counseling; 3.4. Methodology of Social Scientific Research; 4. Towards a Conception of Optimal Empathic Understanding; 5. Imagination; 5.1. Imagination as Part of the Mental Dimension of Empathic Understanding; 5.2. The Social Dimension of Imagination; 6. Worldview; 7. Conclusion; References; Worldview as Relational Notion? Reconsidering the Relations Between Worldviews, Science and Us from a Radical Symmetrical Anthropology Lieve Orye ; 1. Worldview, Map and Orientation
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume is part of the "Worldviews, Science and Us" series of proceedings and contains several contributions on the subject of worlds, cultures and society. It represents the proceedings of several workshops and discussion panels organized by the Leo
• Titolo autorizzato: Worldviews, science and us
• ISBN: 1-283-23509-9; 9786613235091; 981-4355-06-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910827252603321
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