Description: 1. In Search of an Integrated View on the Whole of Reality: Introducing the Worldview Project.- 2. Symmetry and Symmetry-Breaking in the Philosophy and Thinking of Leo Apostel.- 3. Why Not Nothing?.- 4. Leo Apostel's World Views Program in the Perspective of His Causal Ontology. A Critical Appraisal.- 5. "The Structures of Knowledge, or How Many Ways May We Know?".- 6. Discourses of Globalisation and World Views.- 7. The Game of the Biomousa: A View of Discovery and Creation.- 8. The Seven Keys of Any World View.- 9. Buddhism as a Part of a Global Understanding of Reality.- 10. Synthesizing Four Ideals of Humanity.- 11. Kantian Metaphysics and Cognitive Science.- 12. Synthesising Constructivism and Critical Realism: Towards Critical Pluralism.- 13. Science and the Human: Complementarity as Reconciliation.- 14. Conditions and Features of Unity Concepts in Science.- 15. Beyond "Einstein", "Magritte", and "Quine".- 16. Not Even Classical Mechanics Is Mechanistic.- 17. The Synergetic World View and Its Synthetic Value.- 18. Prospectus for Polyscopic Modeling.- 19. Polyscopic Study of a Basic Cultural Pattern.- 20. Turing Meets Thoreau. An Ecological Approach to Computer Science.- 21. Towards a 'Virtual' Rationality?.- 22. The Cycle of Integration and Disintegration Applied to Western Society: A Framework for a Fundamental Prevention of Delinquency.

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