Friedrich Wallner (Vienna, Austria) Constructivism without a Constructor How Constructive Realism Overcomes the Traditional Problems of Philosophy of Science 9 Vincent Shen (Toronto, Canada) Urban Life-world Manifesting the Dao As Inspired by Constructive Realism, Phenomenology and Chinese Philosophy 27 Hugo Renato Ochoa Disselkoen (Valparaíso, Chile) Konstruktiver Realismus 47 Nicole Holzenthal (Oviedo, Spain) Culturally different Presuppositions of Ethics and Moral doctrines Islam and the West 57 Gerhard Klünger (Vienna, Austria) Epistemology and Freedom of Thinking 77 Leonardo Chiatti (Rome, Italy) Niels Bohr and 20th Century Biology: A Strangification Case? 95 Fengli Lan (San Diego, USA) and Friedrich G. Wallner (Vienna, Austria) How to Translate Classical Chinese Medical Texts Enlightenments of Translating Buddhist Scriptures into Chinese 113 Ephraim Ferreira Medeiros (São Paulo, Brazil) and Fengli Lan (San Diego, USA) The Nine Types of Acupuncture Needles Metaphors and Constructive Realism 141 Gertrude Kubiena (Vienna, Austria) Strangification - an Indispensable Instrument for Practicing TCM 171 Andrea-Mercedes Riegel (Heidelberg, Germany) Qijing bamai - The Eight Extraordinary Vessels A concept of Chinese Medicine based on the Yiing 177 Barbara Huppmann (Vienna, Austria) No freedom without relationship. A Psycho-Text Puzzle (PTP), with fictional theological literature and a therapeutic text from Carl Rogers. 199 On the Authors 215
Zusammenfassung
At the end of the eighties of the last century, Friedrich G. Wallner in cooperation with colleagues from various disciplines developed a new Philosophy of Science: Constructive Realism. Initially, Constructive Realism was a reaction to the crisis of Philosophy of Science caused by the influential Popper/Kuhn-debate. Within the nineties, it evolved from a pure Philosophy of Science into the realm of Intercultural Philosophy. After the turn of the millennium, it proved in numerous detailed studies to be both an effective and successful tool for fundamental research on Traditional Chinese Medicine.In this tome, you will find important scholars of Constructive Realism discussing aspects of their work. It features essays on Philosophy, Natural Science and Medicine