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  Back From Chaos - 98.03 by Edward O. Wilson - A contemporary consilience of knowledge is called for : Enlightenment thinkers knew a lot about everything, today's specialists know a lot about a little, and postmodernists doubt that we can know anything at all. One of the century's most important scientists argues, against fashion, that we can know what we need to know, and that we will discover underlying all forms of knowledge a fundamental
- CONSILIENCE: THE UNITY OF KNOWLEDGE By Edward O. Wilson - Is there a unity of knowledge that underlies the fragmentation of learning we find in today's universities? Edward Wilson, one of the world's foremost science writers and a leading researcher in his own right, thinks there is.
- Consilience: Case Studies in Complex Adaptive Systems - The fact of `jumping together' or agreeing; coincidence, concurrence; said of the accordance of two or more inductions drawn from different groups of phenomena.
- Steve Rosenthal Marxist Critique of E.O. Wilson's "Consilience" - How Science is Perverted to Build Fascism: Below is a slightly revised and updated critique of Wilson's "Consilience" that I presented last year (i.e. 1998) at the Southern Sociological Society meeting. I also quote extensively from Wilson. I believe that Wilson, from Sociobiology (1975) to Consilience (1998), has consistently set forth both a program and a theory that is an ideologi
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I have described Cognitive Science as an initial step towards construction of an interdisciplinary science of mind. Another recent effort towards interdiciplinary cooperation within science is the development of a new Science of Complex Systems. Murray Gell-Mann has been a mojor force in the development of t
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