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Knowledge for sustainable development: a worldview's perspective Ghent University
The Flemish Space in 4 Worldviews Departement of spatial development, environment, energy, climate, green economy, animal welfare
As part of a broader practical exercise on future studies for the Flemish Space, the Steunpunt Ruimte en Wonen (SRW) was asked in an ad hoc assignment to develop a practical scenario building exercise. It concerns a pilot project, in which the usability of scenario analysis is investigated for the substantiation of policy choices, and more concretely for the development of the Spatial Planning Policy Plan. In connection with the limited
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Religion, worldviews and deliberative democracy: a plea for strong inclusionism University of Antwerp
Worldviews, science and us: studies of analytical metaphysics: a selection of topics from a methodological perspective Ghent University
How to Discomfort a Worldview? Social Sciences, Surveillance Technologies and Defamiliarization Vrije Universiteit Brussel
his chapter proposes two thinking exercises—or techniques—to nurture researchers’ ability to discomfort (their) worldviews: symmetric dispositifs and wildlife pictures. We believe that these thinking exercises can help us, and maybe other researchers, to achieve estrangement; i.e. to produce descriptions of our research objects that make them open to new, and possibly alternative, relations with them and among them. Our efforts are not to deny ...
The Bodily Excess of a Worldview: Beyond a Theoretical Account of the World Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Contemporary society engenders complex and controversial contradictions as a consequence of the schism between the experience of a rapidly changing world and the incapability or the lack of an appropriate view of that world. This is why we should encourage the efforts towards a global thought of the world. Such a worldview can help us to understand and explain reality. However, we should be critical towards a mere theoretical approach of that ...
The horizontal worldview: a Wittgensteinian approach to scientific psychology University of Antwerp
Many scientific psychologists (implicitly) adopt a vertical worldview. This worldview assumes a layered supervening ontology and thereby invites a reductionist stance on explanation. In the present article we direct attention to an alternative attitude towards reality, the horizontal worldview. We draw on Wittgenstein as an example of this alternative attitude. In his later writings Wittgenstein showed his readers how to resist the urge to ...
What is a worldview? Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The first part of this paper proposes a precise definition of what a worldview is, and why there is a necessity to have one. The second part suggests how to construct integrated scientific worldviews. For this attempts, three general scientific approaches are proposed: the general systems theory as the
endeavor for a universal language for science, a general problem-solving approach and the idea of evolution, broadly construed. We close ...
endeavor for a universal language for science, a general problem-solving approach and the idea of evolution, broadly construed. We close ...