Science Education for All: Moving from a Specialization Approach to a Holistic Approach
Examining several attempts to change the way in which science is taught in the K–16 levels.
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Ways of Knowing: The Scientific Study of Religiosity as Relationality
Throughout history and around the globe, religious people who seem to be of sound mind have reported incredible encounters with non-human sentient beings, both visible and invisible. The “religious experiencer” and the scientist have different ways of evaluating what has occurred and what can be known from these experiences. The sense of encounter or union…
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Influence of the Theory of Natural Dynamism on Philosophical Cognition of Matter and Its Consequences for Modern Sciences Paradigmatism
We are going to consider science perceived as a source of information on the object
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Endorsing a Pluralism Between Analytic and Continental Philosophy
Introduction Since the rise of analytic philosophy, a virtual Berlin wall seems to be inserted with respect to continental philosophy. From a meta-philosophical stance, the common and prima facie reply to this split (if it is not denied) is the encouragement of merging inclinations. In this paper we argue for another strategy. Since unification coincides…
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A Problem for the Kantian-style Critique of the Traditional Metaphysics
0. Introduction For centuries, metaphysics was one of the most respected disciplines. During the modern era and especially during the 20th century, the possibility of this field of study became the subject of doubt. Some claimed that even if there is a metaphysics, it is not in fact about the being as being but about…
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Communication and Difference from a Transdisciplinary Perspective
Introduction “The essence of transdisciplinarity lies in the recognition that there is no privileged cultural space or time which allow the judgment and hierarchization of different complexes of explanation and reality as more correct or more truthful.” – Ubiratan d’Ambrosio In a broad sense, communication is to turn common. Social communication processes promote the circulation…
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Applying Relational and Contextual Reasoning (RCR) to Understand Human-Divine Relationships: Psychological, Biological and Theological Perspectives
Throughout the ages people have exhibited a range of emotions and social behaviours to their gods, suggesting many different patterns of relationship. The Old Testament speaks of divine messages coming in dreams. Sarah laughed at a messenger of God (Gen18:12), Abraham haggled with God (Gen 18), Moses encountered God in a burning bush (Ex3:4), Jacob…
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Tolerance and Globalization in the Dialogue between Science and Religion in Romania
Why can Romania offer a privileged prospective on transdisciplinarity? Introduction Both scientists and theologians direct their interest towards the same object (world, life), although their approaches are clearly different. Therefore, it is not surprising that, throughout the centuries, they have showed quite a suspicious attitude one to another. The core of misunderstanding resides in the…
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What About Transdisciplinarity? Its Past, its Present, its Potential…and a Proposal
Overview Given the theme of this year’s conference “Transdisciplinarity and the Unity of Knowledge” I originally intended to simply contribute with this paper the definition of transdisciplinarity, and provide a comprehensive overview of the field of transdisciplinary projects, organizations and media. The sobering result of my initial investigations was that 1) there is no such…
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Quest for unity: Religious Specifics of a Universal Psychological Function
Among the vast number of psychological functions of religion, is it possible to delineate one or two that can claim to: a) apply universally in all the varied contexts in which religion is expressed; and b) give a specific psychological explanation of the function of religion, as compared with other needs and psychological functions? Our…
