From Composites to Consilience

Since the Ionian Times (Thales of Miletus) thinkers strived to reduce all knowledge to certain essential parts. The explosion of knowledge in recent times resulted in overspecialization. A call for interdisciplinarity and even an holistic approach to addressing scientific problems is ever present. Attempts to linking all knowledge, from natural sciences to social sciences and humanities should not ignore the historical fact that the social environment is of paramount importance for human conscious actions.