CONTENTS -- Worldviews, Science and Us, Global Perspectives Diederik Aerts, Bart D'Hooghe and Nicole Note -- References -- Arguments in Favour of Inclusive Science Ilja Maso -- 1. The Distinction between What May and What May Not be Termed Science -- 2. The Hierarchy of Scientific Approaches or Disciplines -- 3. Inclusive Science -- References -- Inclusive Worldviews: Interdisciplinary Research from a Radical Constructivist Perspective Alexander Riegler -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Why Philosophy and Science? -- 3. Why Interdisciplinarity? -- 4. Problems of Interdisciplinarity -- 5. Towards a Definition of Interdisciplinarity -- 6. Why Radical Constructivism? -- 7. Conclusion -- References -- The Chatton-Ockham Strategy -- an Alternative to the Simplicity Principle Adri Smaling -- 1. A Personal Introduction to the Problem -- 2. The Historical Origins of the Simplicity Principle -- 3. Ockham's Razor -- 4. Unjustifiable and Regrettable Reductionism in Modern Science -- 5. Some Revisions of the Simplicity Principle -- 6. Chatton's Anti-Razor and other Counter-principles -- 7. The Chatton-Ockham Strategy -- References -- The Intrinsic Multiplicity of Science: Its Internal and External Confrontations - An Essay Jan Broekaert -- 1. Inside and Outside Perspectives -- 2. Stances in the Practice of Science -- 3. Tentative Pathways to Inclusion -- A quantum implication -- -- A complexity implication -- -- 4. The "Forgotten" Grammar of Speculation in the Sciences -- Acknowledgments -- References -- To Know or Not to Know, One Way or Another Roelof Oldeman -- 1. The Why of the How -- 2. The Why of the Who -- 3. Reconnaissance -- 4. The Great Forest -- 5. Travelling in Space and Time -- 6. An Elastic Universe? -- 7. Axioms and Rules in an Elastic Universe -- 8. Perspectives for Students -- References.

A Naturalistic and Critical View of Social Sciences and the Humanities Hendrik Pinxten and Nicole Note -- 1. The Epistemological Stands -- 2. The Contextual Constraints -- 3. The Civilisation Debate and the Study of Humans -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Sciences and Knowledge Practices: their Culture-Specific Wellsprings Rene Devisch -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Plural Modernities -- 3. From a Universalist Science Perspective to a Rhizoma-like Perspective -- 4. The Local Knowledge Systems and Practices -- 4.1. Anthropological Perspectives on Local Knowledge -- 4.1.1. Parameters of local knowledge -- 4.1.2. Placing local knowledge and the dominant scientific tradition in perspective -- 4.2. Towards Dialoguing with the Plural Endogenous or Local Culture- bound Knowledge Practices -- 5. Mediating between Local Knowledge Systems -- 5.1. Science Is Not Free of Culture -- 5.2. Charting a New Direction: Science and Local or Site-specific Knowledge Practices and Competences -- 5.3. Itineraries for a Relative Endogenisation of Knowledge-building, Partly in Line with the Ambient Rationale of Civilisation -- Acknowledgments -- References -- On High and Low Styles in Philosophy, or, Towards a Rehabilitation of the Ideal Koo van der Wal -- 1. High and Low Styles in Poetry -- 2. The Characteristically High Style of Classical Philosophy -- 3. The Uncoupling of Reality and Ideality in Modern Philosophy -- 4. The Flattening Out of the Image of Reality -- 5. A Critique of a One-dimensional Concept of Experience -- 6. The Rehabilitation of Suppressed Forms of Experience -- 7. An Organicistic Natural Philosophy -- 8. Second Reflection -- References -- Towards a Re-Delineation of the Human Self-understanding within the Western Worldview: its Social and Ethical Implications Nicole Note, Hendrik Pinxten and Diederik Aerts -- 1. Introduction.

2. The Modern Perception of the Human Self -- 2.1. Potentialities Perceived in Modernity -- 2.2. Some Worrisome Developments -- 2.2.1. The right to self-realisation -- 2.2.2. The merging of "rational thinking" with egocentrism and instrumentality -- 2.2.3. The discourse on all meaning coming from within -- 3. An Adjusted Self-understanding -- 3.1. The Ethical Potential -- 3.1.1. Hampering the aspiration to respond -- 3.1.2. The being touched "experience", a conceptual "diffh-end" -- 3.2. The Potential to be Situated I n and Orientated Towards a Larger, Meaningful Whole -- 3.2.1. T h e three-ontology world -- 3.2.2. Being situated, being orientated towards -- 3.2.3. The ethical horizon, the social-cultural-historical horizon, the physical horizon -- a. The ethical horizon -- b. The social-cultural-historical horizon -- c. The physcial horizon -- 3.2.4. Developing the potential to be situated in a larger whole -- 4. Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Towards a New Democracy: Consensus through Quantum Parliament Diederik Aerts -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Democracies -- 2.1. Majority Rule Democracy -- 2.2. Consensus Democracy -- 3. Natural and Procedural Decision Processes -- 3.1. Boycott and False Play in Procedural Decision Systems -- 3.2. Pure Consensus and Majority Consensus -- 3.3. Random Consensus -- 4. Quantum Democracy -- 4.1. Quantum Parliament -- 4.2. Quantum Consensus -- 4.3. Natural and Procedural, the Aspect of Determinism -- 4.4. The Specificity of the Quantum Process -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Necessity of Combining Mutually Incompatible Perspectives in the Construction of a Global View: Quantum Probability and Signal Analysis Sven Aerts, Diederik Aerts and Franklin Schroeck -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Birth of Quantum Mechanics -- 3. Whose Point of View? -- 3.1. Description and Frame of Reference in Analytic Geometry.

3.2. Incompatibility in Analytic Geometry -- 3.3. Description and Complementarity in Quantum Mechanics -- 4. Signal Analysis -- 4.1. Quantum Probability and Signal Analysis -- 4.2. The Fourier Paradigm -- 4.3. Properties of Fourier Pairs -- 5. Concluding Remarks: The Necessity of Combining Mutually Incompatible Perspectives -- Acknowledgments -- References.