Consilience (book)

Consilience

Cover of the first edition
Author E. O. Wilson
Language English
Publication date
1998
Media type Print (hardcover and paperback)
Pages 332 pp.
ISBN 9780679450771

Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge is a 1998 book by biologist E. O. Wilson, in which he discusses methods that have been used to unite the sciences and might in the future unite them with the humanities. Wilson uses the term consilience to describe the synthesis of knowledge from different specialized fields of human endeavor.

Definition of consilience

"Literally a 'jumping together' of knowledge by the linking of facts and fact-based theory across disciplines to create a common groundwork of explanation." (page 7)

Examples of consilience discussed by Wilson

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

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