Ways of Knowing by Chris Clarke

Ways of Knowing by Chris Clarke

The world faces a crisis of meaning. The old stories -- whether the exclusive claims of rival religions or the grand schemes of perennial philosophy -- seem bankrupt to many. The editorial stance of this book is that mysticism and science offer a way forward here, but only if they abandon the idol of a single logical synthesis and acknowledge the diversity of different ways of knowing. The contributors, from disciplines as diverse as music, psychology, mathematics and religion, build a vision that honours diversity while pointing to an implicit unity.

Chris Clarke works at Unilever R and D in Bedford as a patent attorney. He formerly worked at Unilever as a research scientist and project leader in the Ice Cream Group, where he studied ice cream colloidal and crystallisation processes.