Abstract
Abstract ‘Can we actually “know” the universe? My God, it is hard enough finding your way around in Chinatown …’ is a line from one of Woody Allen’s books. The line seems appropriate as the opening line for an essay in which I plan to examine some of the many problems with the idea of ‘unity of knowledge’ or ‘consilience’ as presented by the Harvard University biologist E. O. Wilson (1998). Concerning the gospel of ‘consilience’ I have doubts about its ‘unification metaphysics’ (material determination, all the way down) and its ‘unified learning’ pedagogy (with its emphasis on one particular, even peculiar, ‘natural science’ conception of knowledge; Wilson, 1998, p. 5, 3).
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