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This publication features an interdisciplinary group of contributors which questions aspects of today's worldviews and science that are often taken for granted and tacitly determine the boundaries of what is generally conceived of as the 'world' and 'science'. Some authors stress that existing demarcations are obsolete and often prevent new insights. Others show how they influence the way people perceive themselves and believe the world ontologically to be, determining people's actions and the social fabric. There are yet others who point out how a redemarcation may stimulate the development of knowledge acquisition and social well-being. Examples of how bridging knowledge between different fields leads to new crucial insights, while identifying the pattern of too strict a demarcation preventing such insights, are also analyzed in this volume.
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WORLDVI E W S, SCIENCE AND US Redemarcating Knowledge and I t s Social and Ethical Implications This page intentionally left blank editors Diederik Aerts Bart Nicole Note Leo Apostel Centre (CLEA) & Brussels Free University (VUB), Belgium Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels 10 June 2003 2003 WORLDVIEWS, SCIENCE AND US Reademarcating ting ting Knowledge dgeand Its Its Social Social and Ethical mplications WoWorld Scientific N E W JERSEY * LONDON * SINGAPORE BElJlNG * S H A N G H A I HONG KONG * TAIPEI * C H E N N A I Published by World Scientific Publishing Co. Re. Ltd. 5 Toh Tuck Link, Singapore 596224 USA ofice: 27 Warren Street, Suite 401-402, Hackensack, NJ 07601 UK ofice: 57 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London WC2H 9HE British Library Cataloguing-in-PublicationData A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. WORLDVIEWS, SCIENCE A N D U