Most arguments against
consilience revolve around Wilhelm Dilthey's notion that the human studies "cannot be a continuation of the hierarchy of the natural sciences, because they rest upon a different foundation" (qtd.
(6) Neither is he giving in to the siren call of
consilience, when
consilience means the methodological subsumption of the humanities into the hard sciences.
Following the calls for paradigmatic changes in our thinking about antitrust and the need to apply interdisciplinary learning, this author previously has argued that we need to join together the teachings and lessons from evolutionary biology and competition economics in a "
consilience." (53) As "ideologies across the board are hardening," we need to pursue a
consilience of the various branches of the biological and social sciences and economics to keep ourselves from being hardened to the corrosive injustices that exist in our world.
As the islands become connected,
consilience increases solidifying the field's status as a science.
Wilson, author of
Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge (1998), as the founding father of the school--also referred to as biopoetics--which is nowadays further associated with such names as Brian Boyd, Joseph Carroll, Denis Dutton, Jonathan Gottschall, and Frederick Turner (101).
We could not be more gratified by the historical breadth and compelling
consilience of the group.
Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge, published in 1998, has inspired a generation of scholars and scientists who believe, along with Wilson, that nature forms a unitary causal order and that all knowledge can and should form a seamless web leading from physics and chemistry through biology to the social sciences and the humanities.
Having never written a book before, finding out how to go about having one published was a "minefield" but Whitley Bay-based company
Consilience Media took it on immediately.
They can't remember the last time they had a good night's sleep or a proper shower, so when they see the commercial for a compound named
Consilience that promises stable jobs and secure homes, they decide that this is their golden parachute.
Wilson published the book
Consilience, which sought a grand unification for the study of the biological sciences.
The seventeen selections that make up the main body of the text have been organized in five parts, covering theoretical foundations, psychological construction theories, core effect, commentary and
consilience, and integration and reflection.