Concepts as Pluralistic Hybrids

Attachment as a Cultural and Ecological Problem with Pluralistic Solutions

Glueballs, Hybrids, Multiquarks. Experimental facts versus QCD inspired concepts.

Glueballs, hybrids and multiquark states are predicted as bound states in models guided by quantum chromodynamics, by QCD sum rules or QCD on a lattice. Estimates for the (scalar) glueball ground state are in the mass range from 1000 to 1800MeV, followed by a tensor and a pseudoscalar glueball at higher mass. Experiments have reported evidence for an abundance of meson resonances with 0−+, 0 an...

Exclusivism in Hick’s Pluralistic Hypothesis

In An Interpretation of Religion: Human Responses to the Transcendent, John Hick presents an impressive theory of religious pluralism. His theory is intended to explain how it may be that all of the great religious traditions are essentially true despite their apparent contradictions. Hick points out that there are many religions in the world, each of which seems to be incompatible with others....

Pluralistic Modeling of Complex Systems

The modeling of complex systems such as ecological or socio-economic systems can be very challenging. Although various modeling approaches exist, they are generally not compatible and mutually consistent, and empirical data often do not allow one to decide what model is the right one, the best one, or most appropriate one. Moreover, as the recent financial and economic crisis shows, relying on ...

A Pluralistic Approach to Attachment

This chapter presents an alternative view to classic attachment theory and research, arguing for systematic, ethnographically informed, approaches to the study of child development. It begins with the observation that the attachment relationships children develop are locally determined and insists that these features of attachment can only be captured through observing, talking with, and listen...