 Toyin Adepoju requested that we send this e-mail. If you have questions about Amazon.co.uk, please visit our Help Department . | | | Toyin writes: A comprehensive understanding of the cosmos and of the various ways in which people try to reach that understanding is impossible without a comprehensive knowledge of science, even if one is not able to grasp the minutiae of scientific knowledge but understands its general outlines.
How have various civilisations and bodies of knowledge within each civilisation as the civlisation developed across the centuries understood reality? What are the relationships between these views on reality? What is the current globally dominant position on the nature of reality? Which perspectives are more accurate, which are complementary and which are mutually incompatible?
These are questions that may emerge from a comparative study of world views within and across civilisations.
World views can be described as conceptions of the totality of all possibilities. This totality is expressed in terms of ideas about the constituents, structure, dynamism and development of the cosmos.
World views are the expressions of the fundamental human drive to locate themselves in the cosmos by exploring the cosmos, imaginatively, intellectually, among other approaches, through as broad a perspective as possible.
The comparative study of world views involves the comparative investigation of the expressions of this impulse in particular cosmologies.
Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions is central to this task because it is described as exploring intersections between subjectivity and objectivity in science, science being a central vehicle for world views.
In its contents and seminal influence, the book facilitates the comparative understanding of convergence and divergence between various disciplines in the struggle between competing approaches to the understanding of nature.
Are these contrastive methods and the ideas related to them more fruitfully approached as competing or as collaborative in a spirit of reinforcing correlative insights as well as mutually reinforcing the discounting of inadequate perspectives?
This seems to be the latest edition of this landmark 1960s book. Chicago UP is planning a 50th anniversary edition for May 2012 :http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/S/bo13179781.html. Accessed 27.03. 2012.
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