Title: World views and the problem of synthesis : the yellow book of 'Einstein meets Magritte' /
Authors: Aerts, Diederik, 1953-; Van Belle, Hubert; Van der Veken, Jan
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers,
Year: 1999
Subjects: Apostel, Leo Congresses.; Philosophy Congresses; Life Congresses
Contents: Introduction: world views and the problem of synthesis / Hubert Van Belle and Jan Van der Veken -- In search of an integrated view on the whole of reality: introducing the worldview project / Jan Van der Veken -- Symmetry and symmetry-breaking in the philosophy and thinking of Leo Apostel / Hubert Van Belle -- Why not nothing? / Leo Apostel -- Leo Apostel's world views program in the perspective of his causal ontology: a critical appraisal / Diderik Batens and Wim Christiaens -- "The structures of knowledge, or How many ways may we know?" / Immanuel Wallerstein -- Discourses of globalisation and world views / Robert Maier -- The game of the biomousa: a view of discovery and creation / Diederik Aerts -- The seven keys of any world view / Fons Elders -- Buddhism as a part of a global understanding of reality / Frans Goetghebeur -- Synthesizing four ideals of humanity / Tetsunori Koizumi -- Kantian metaphysics and cognitive science / Hugh Clapin -- Synthesising constructivism and critical realism: towards critical pluralism / John Mingers -- Science and the human: complementarity as reconciliation / Yoav Ben-Dov -- Conditions and features of unity concepts in science / Vladimir Kuznetsov -- Beyond "Einstein", "Magritte", and "Quine" / Philip L. Peterson -- Not even classical mechanics is mechanistic / H.-H. von Borzeszkowski and R. Washner -- The synergetic world view and its synthetic value / Helenz Knyazeva -- Prospectus for polyscopic modeling / Dino Karabeg -- Polyscopic study of a basic cultural pattern / Dino Karabeg -- Turing meets Thoreau: an ecological approach to computer science / Dirk Siefkes -- Towards a 'virtual' rationality? / Francisco Campos -- The cycle of integration and disintegration applied to Western society: a framework for a fundamental prevention of delinquency / Johan Deklerck and Anouk Depuydt.