Metaphilosophical Criteria for Worldview Comparison Vrije Universiteit Brussel
In this paper, we present a list of eight criteria to compare worldviews. They are classified in three broad categories: objective criteria (objective consistency, scientificity, scope) subjective criteria (subjective consistency, personal utility, affectivity) and intersubjective criteria (simplicity, collective utility). We first define what a worldview is, and explicit the heuristic used to find the criteria. We then describe each criterion ...