The meaning of the term worldview (also world-view, world view, and German Weltanschauung) seems self-evident: an intellectual perspective on the world or universe. Indeed, the 1989 edition of the Oxford English Dictionary defines world-view as a "... contemplation of the world, [a] view of life ..." The OED defines Weltanschauung (literally, a perception of the world) as "... [a] particular philosophy of life; a concept of the world held by an individual or a group ..."
Annick de Witt on Worldview Theory in a Time Between Worlds
Join us for the Life Itself Research Community Call#33. Annick de Witt discusses how her research on worldviews helps us respond to our current period of global societal transition.
‘Views’ are lies
You might think a “view” means you watched something. You’d be wrong.
World-systems theory
World-systems theory is a multidisciplinary approach to world history and social change which emphasizes the world-system as the primary unit of social analysis. World-systems theorists argue that their theory explains the rise and fall of states, income inequality, social unrest, and imperialism.
A fact-based worldview for all | Gapminder
We live in a globalized world, not only in terms of trade and migration. More people than ever care about global development. But most people have severe misconceptions about contemporary global development. We know, because we have tested people’s knowledge. One of the main reasons for this is that students don’t learn to understand the world based on statistics and facts. Instead, we have a dramatic worldview formed by outdated school books and sensationalist news-stories. People intuitively believe that most things are getting worse. The dramatic worldview leads to irrational decisions by individuals, nonprofits, governments and business. For the first time in human history reliable statistics exist. There’s data for almost every aspect of global development. The data shows a very different picture: a world where most things improve; a world that is not divided; and a world where the fast population growth will soon be over. The world has never been less bad. But that doesn’t mean it’s perfect.
Worlding Raga: 4 - Who Worlds?
So far we’ve been discussing Worlding as an art . One that an individual creator can engage in on their own. As Venkat suggested , we are already living in an…
Fog of World - Experience a Richer Life
Fog of World is a real-life, travel and exploring game where you need to remove the fog on the map by exploring the world. It's a fantastic way to visualize everywhere you have been in your entire life or to discover places around you!
Critiques of World Models
Specifically, a World Model (WM) is a generative model that simulates the possibilities in diverse scenarios (e.g., physical world, mental world, social world, and evolutionary world). Operationally, a WM takes previous world state s𝑠sitalic_s and action a𝑎aitalic_a, and predicts or simulates the next world state s′superscript𝑠′s^{\prime}italic_s start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT ′ end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT through a transformation function, such as a conditional probability distribution:
The Origins Of <br>‘Planetary Realism’ And <br>‘Whole Earth’ Thinking | NOEMA
There is no escaping an interconnected world.
Orientalism (book)
Orientalism is a 1978 book by Edward Said, in which he establishes the term "Orientalism" as a critical concept to describe the Western world's commonly contemptuous depiction and portrayal of the Eastern world. Societies and peoples of the Orient are those who inhabit regions throughout Asia and North Africa. Said argues that Orientalism, in the sense of Western scholarship about the Eastern world, is inextricably tied to the imperialist societies that produced it, which makes much Orientalist work inherently political and servile to power.
Country Perception
How countries and global organizations are perceived around the world
How to counter "everything is a construct" worldview?
Many of the people in humanities I encounter seem very wedded to mindset I refer to as "construct = everything". For example, they say bazar things such as gender is 100% a construct. They say...
Another World Archive
Another World is a people's archive of free educational materials about artists and cultural workers in the struggle to build and imagine another world. It affirms that the artist must take sides against oppression and uplift the courage, dignity, and power of everyday people. Their creative labor a
Another World Archive
Another World is a people's archive of free educational materials about artists and cultural workers in the struggle to build and imagine another world. It affirms that the artist must take sides against oppression and uplift the courage, dignity, and power of everyday people. Their creative labor a
A Philosopher’s One-Word Theory to Explain Why the World Feels So Weird
Once you learn what the "uni-context" is, you won't stop seeing it everywhere
Lectures on Perception: An Ecological Perspective
Lectures on Perception: An Ecological Perspective addresses the generic principles by which each and every kind of life form—from single celled organisms (e.g., difflugia) to multi-celled organisms (e.g., primates)—perceives the circumstances of their living so that they can behave adaptively. It focuses on the fundamental ability that relates each and every organism to its surroundings, namely, the ability to perceive things in the sense of how to get about among them and what to do, or not
