The impact of science on society and on the individual is today of such an order that any view or vision of the world and humankind labeled unscientific by authoritative scientists or philosophers of science has little chance of being enjoyed, expressed, or made an object of serious logical and empirical research. Among such worldviews, too easily ignored by admirers and philosophers of science, I have particularly in mind those conventionally classed as not empirical or not rational, including a list of philosophies inspired by the Dane Søren Kierkegaard and by the Germans Georg Hegel and Karl Marx, but I also have artistic visions in mind, such as those of the best science fiction.
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(2005). A Plea for Pluralism in Philosophy and Physics. In: Drengson, A. (eds) The Selected Works of Arne Naess. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-4519-6_70
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