Falsifying Two Asian Paradigms and De-Westernizing Science

Abstract

Classical science searches for simple rules of general applicability underlying the multiple phenomena. Its quest is order, causality, and determinism. It splits the world into elementary components and isolates them from their environment. It creates fragmentation of the scientific enterprise into insular disciplines and ignores the social stratum from which science emerges. Although its successes are overwhelming, classical science is incapable of placing problems into their proper context. As a result, it can only lead to a mutilated view of the real world and to technological applications that are blind, unchecked, and manipulative. Thus, the old science fails to properly address the huge problems facing us today—mass destruction, the environmental problem, global economic deregulation, the demographic explosion, and social inequality. (Westbroek, 2004) Communication scholars should pay particular attention to the foregoing concerns expressed by Westbroek, a geophysiologist. World-system analysts (e.g., Wallerstein, 2004, 2006), new systems...

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