CONTENTS -- Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Worlds, Cultures and Society Diederik Aerts, Bart D'Hooghe, Rik Pinxten and Immanuel Wallerstein -- Why Consciousness has No Plural Koen Stroeken -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Towards an Anthropic Quantology -- 3. Meaning is Matter -- 4. Infinity and Contingency -- 5. Self-Organization as Free Destiny -- 6. Conclusion: Physical Dualism -- Acknowledgments -- References -- The Relevance of a Non-Colonial View on Science and Knowledge for an Open Perspective on the World Rik Pinxten -- 1. The Colonial Attitude -- 2. Overcoming the Colonial Attitude -- 3. Anthropology Looks in its Mirror -- References -- An Atlas for the Social World: What Should It (not) Look Like? Interdisciplinarity and Pluralism in the Social Sciences Jeroen Van Bouwel -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Social Sciences, the Puzzle and the Maps -- 3. Interdisciplinary Strategies: Collaboration and Division of Labour between the Social Scientific Disciplines -- 3.1. Imperialism or Colonisation -- 3.2. Insulation -- 3.3. Collaboration Leading to a New Synthesis -- 3.4. The Question-Driven Strategy -- 4. Defending Question-Driven Interdisciplinarity for Drawing the Atlas -- 4.1. Providing Good Explanations -- 4.2. Interdisciplinary Strategies Evaluated -- 4.3. Defending Question-Driven Interdisciplinarity -- 5. Elaborating the Atlas in Economics -- 5.1. The Impact of Globalisation -- 5.2. Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy in Economics -- 5.3. Critical Realism in Economics and its Pleas for Pluralism -- 5.4. Question-Driven Interdisciplinarity and the Map Metaphor -- 6. Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Worlds of Legitimate Welfare Arrangements: A Realistic Utopia on Pensions Patricia Frericks and Robert Maier -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Norms Derived from the Dynamic of Citizenship -- 3. Preconditions and Characteristics of Pension Systems.

4. Male Breadwinner Systems and (Limited) Individualization: Non-Fit of Pension Systems -- 5. Realistic Utopia -- 5.1. Basic Pensions -- 5.2. Complementary Pensions -- 5.2.1. Second layer pensions -- 5.2.2. Third layer pensions -- 6. Coming Full Circle: Citizenship and Pensions -- 7. Final Remarks -- References -- Imagination and Empathy as Conditions for Interpersonal Understanding in the Context of a Facilitating Worldview Hans Alma and Adri Smaling -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Criticisms on Empathic Understanding -- 2.1. Empirical-Analytical Philosophy -- 2.2. Hermeneutic Philosophy -- 3. Appreciations of Empathic Understanding -- 3.1. Philosophy of Science -- 3.2. Phenomenological Philosophy -- 3.3. Psychotherapy and Counseling -- 3.4. Methodology of Social Scientific Research -- 4. Towards a Conception of Optimal Empathic Understanding -- 5. Imagination -- 5.1. Imagination as Part of the Mental Dimension of Empathic Understanding -- 5.2. The Social Dimension of Imagination -- 6. Worldview -- 7. Conclusion -- References -- Worldview as Relational Notion? Reconsidering the Relations Between Worldviews, Science and Us from a Radical Symmetrical Anthropology Lieve Orye -- 1. Worldview, Map and Orientation -- 2. Maps and Particular Ways of Relating -- 2.1. A Foundational Error and Irony -- 2.2. One Side of the Coin: from Minds and Forms to Goals and Movement -- 2.3. The Other Side of the Coin: Persons in a Relational World -- 3. Worldview as a Non-Relational Notion -- 4. Worldview as Relational Notion? -- Acknowledgments -- References -- The Structures of Knowledge in a World in Transition Richard E. Lee -- 1. Introduction -- References -- On Bridging Theory and Practice in the Perspective of History Ellen Van Keer -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Epistemology -- 2.1. General Epistemology -- 2.2. History and Epistemology -- 3. History and Theory.

4. History and Philosophy -- 5. History and Methodology -- 6. History and Historiography -- 7. History and Archaeology -- 8. Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Addressing the Sustainability Challenge Beyond the Fact-Value Dichotomy: A Call for Engaged Knowledge Gert Goeminne, Filip Kolen and Erik Paredis -- 1. Preamble -- 2. The Sustainability Impasse in the Modern Constitution -- 3. Breaking the Impasse: Call for Engaged Knowledge -- 3.1. The Co-Constitution of Subjectivity and Objectivity: Opening Up a Conceptual Space to Think beyond the Fact-Value Dichotomy -- 3.2. From Arena to Agora: Developing the Conceptual and Institutional Contours to Rethink the Science-Policy Nexus beyond the Modern Constitutionc -- 3.3. Putting Engaged Knowledge at Work in Science-Policy Agorae for Sustainability Transitions -- 4. Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References.