Worldviews, Science and Us

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 Apostel Center for Interdisciplinary studies within the framework of the "Research on the Construction of Integrating Worldviews" research community set up by the Flanders Fund for Scientific Research, over the period of time between 2005 to 2010. Further information about this research community and a full list of the associated international research centers can be found at vub.ac.be/CLEA/res/worldviews/

Preface: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Worlds, Cultures and Society(D Aerts et al.); Why Consciousness has No Plural (K Stroeken); The Relevance of a Non-Colonial View on Science and Knowledge for an Open Perspective on the World (R Pinxten); An Atlas for the Social World: What Should It (Not) Look Like? Interdisciplinarity and Pluralism in the Social Sciences (J Van Bouwel); Worlds of Legitimate Welfare Arrangements: A Realistic Utopia on Pensions (P Frericks & R Maier); Imagination and Empathy as Conditions for Interpersonal Understanding in the Context of a Facilitating Worldview (H Alma & A Smaling); Worldview as Relational Notion? Reconsidering the Relations Between Worldviews, Science and Us from a Radical Symmetrical Anthropology (L Orye); The Structures of Knowledge in a World in Transition (R E Lee); On Bridging Theory and Practice in the Perspective of History (E Van Keer); Addressing the Sustainability Challenge Beyond the Fact-Value Dichotomy: A Call for Engaged Knowledge (G Goeminne et al.).