This paper sketches the broad outlines of the philosophical and methodological foundations of an emerging approach to inquiry — ‘integral inquiry’ — and how this form of inquiry may be applied to futures studies, leading to an approach which has come to called ‘Integral Futures’. A version of this paper appeared in: Futures, vol. 40, no. 2, pp. 190-201, 2008. Special Issue Title: ‘Integral Futu...