creators_name: Vidal, Clément type: bookchapter datestamp: 2008-07-15 09:54:12 lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:57:08 metadata_visibility: show title: What is a worldview? ispublished: inpress subjects: phil-sci subjects: comp-sci-complex-theory subjects: phil-metaphys full_text_status: public keywords: worldview, problem-solving, systems theory, integrative worldview, scientific worldview note: Published in Dutch. abstract: 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 attempt, 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. 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