Seeking Understanding : : The Lifelong Pursuit to Build the Scientific Mind / / Jan Visser, Muriel Visser.

The quest to understand defines our humanness. Since time immemorial it has given rise to art and literature, philosophical reflection, religious practice, myths, metaphor, and allegory, as well as, in more recent history, disciplined scientific inquiry. Seeking understanding is a lifelong journey t...

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Place / Publishing House:Leiden; , Boston : : Brill | Sense, , 2020.
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (405 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright page
  • Advance Praise for Seeking Understanding
  • Dedication
  • Foreword / Walter R. Erdelen
  • Acknowledgements
  • Figures and Tables
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction: The Making of This Book and Its Roots in Creative Collaboration / Jan Visser and Muriel Visser
  • Intermezzi: Thoughts Inspired by the Thoughts of Others / Jan Visser
  • The Quest to Know / Jan Visser
  • The Missing Piece / Jan Visser
  • Context Is Everything and Everything Has Meaning / Robert Greenberg
  • Life Starts Long before Its Beginning / Jan Visser
  • From Preconception to Preschool / Emily Vargas-Barón
  • Touching the Encountered World / Jan Visser
  • Saga of a Small Science Center / Arvind Gupta
  • The Worthwhile Struggle to Overcome Inertia / Jan Visser
  • Expanding the Dialogue / Paul E. Heckman
  • When the Sky Is Not the Limit, It Could Be the Beginning / Jan Visser
  • The Inspiring Universe / George Miley, Carolina Ödman and Pedro Russo
  • Never Ever without Passion / Jan Visser
  • Playing the Role of Facilitator / Jos van den Broek
  • On Dialogue / Jan Visser
  • How You Talk Is How You Think; How You Think Is How You Understand / Paul Webb
  • Facing Life’s Biggest Questions / Jan Visser
  • Seeking to Know and Understand the Self / Premana W. Premadi
  • A Sense of Beauty / Jan Visser
  • Beauty in Science, Science in Beauty / Matthew Colless
  • Making the Unfamiliar Familiar / Jan Visser
  • Science Popularizer Is the Most Important Job That Does Not Yet Exist / Lê Nguyên Hoang
  • It’s Not Just a Right; It’s an Obligation to the Future / Jan Visser
  • Fostering Inquiry, Reasoning and Critical Thinking / J. Michael Spector
  • How Long Can We Still Wait and Who Takes Responsibility? / Jan Visser
  • The Shifting Mind of Economics / Martinus Petrus de Wit
  • Looking Back with a View to Looking Forward / Jan Visser
  • Invent the Future / Federico Mayor
  • Culture of Differences vs. Difference of Cultures / Jan Visser
  • Seeking to Find out Why Things Happen / Ralf Syring
  • Reverence for Life, Whatever Its Manifestations / Jan Visser
  • Nontraditional Pathways to the Development of a Scientific Mind / Stephen P. Hinshaw
  • Homo Ludens / Jan Visser
  • Education in a Complex World / Carlo Fabricatore and Ximena López
  • Where Science Ends / Jan Visser
  • HIV, Medical Science and the Call to Greater Humanness / James Lees
  • Back Matter
  • Index.