Worldviews, Science and Us, Global Perspectives

This book originated in the regular meetings of several of the contributors scientists of such diverse disciplines as philosophy, anthropology, ethics, physics, methodology, and quantum mechanics. During these meetings, the basic themes that are represented in the book were discussed. The meetings were organised as part of the activities of the research community “The construction of Integrating Worldviews”, under the auspices of the “Fund for Scientific Research Flanders”, headed by the Leo Apostle Centre of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. When the Leo Apostel Centre was founded in 1995, the central theme of research at the Centre, namely the construction of integrating worldviews, had been stated explicitly by the late Leo Apostel, one of Belgiums eminent philosophers. According to Apostel and his collaborators, a worldview can be defined as a coherent set of bodies of knowledge concerning all aspects