Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge

The idea of consilience itself is a concept of Greek origin that assumes an intrinsic orderliness in our cosmos, which makes it understandable by human reason. As such it is the prerequisite of any scientific knowledge of our surroundings, since there cannot be knowledge —at least in a form that we can communicate and share with others— without the use of reason. In this book E. O. Wilson calls for a return to this old project that attempted to unite all of human knowledge into a single corpus —not so different from the efforts to find a theory of everything that we have heard of so much lately, although extending far beyond the realm of physics and reaching towards many other disciplines, including the social sciences. Along the way, Wilson takes us on a fascinating journey through the different attempts to build this synthesis in human history and reflects over our contemporary state.

Technical description:
Title: Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge.
Author: Edrwad O. Wilson.
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Edition: First Edition, New York (USA), 1998.
Pages: 332 pages, including index.
ISBN: 0-679-45077-7

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