On-Line Articles
Transdisciplinarity Approach to Strong Sustainability
Abstract of the Key-note talk at the International Congress “Paradigms, Models, Scenarios and Practices for more sustainability”, University of Clermont Auvergne (UCA) and Jean Monnet Excellence Center on Sustainability (ERASME), 4 - 5 - 6 December 2019, Polytech Clermont-Ferrand, France.
Odderon, concept invented by the physicist Basarab Nicolescu, honorary member of the Romanian Academy, interview realized by Catalin Mosoia
Romanian Academy, 2018
The Bootstrap Principle and the Uniqueness of the World
Cybernetics and Human Knowing, Vol. 24 (2017), no. 2, p. 83-88
A Conversation Between Basarab Nicolescu and Arthur Versluis, Part One: "Spirituality and Transdisciplinarity"
© Copyright 2017 Basarab Nicolescu and Arthur Versluis. All rights reserved. No republication or reproduction without express written consent of the speakers.
A Conversation Between Basarab Nicolescu and Arthur Versluis, Part Two: "The Sacred and Consciousness"
© Copyright 2017 Basarab Nicolescu and Arthur Versluis. All rights reserved. No republication or reproduction without express written consent of the speakers.
The Hidden Third as the Unifier of Natural and Spiritual Information
Cybernetics and Human Knowing, Vol. 22 (2015), no. 4, p. 91-99
Transdisciplinary Realism
Cybernetics and Human Knowing, Vol. 23 (2016), no. 2, p. 77-85
The Dark Side of Technological Singularity: New Barbarism
Cybernetics and Human Knowing, Vol. 23 (2016), no. 4, p. 77-83
The Hidden Third and the Multiple Splendor of Being
Published in V. Bazhanov and R. W. Scholz (Ed.), Transdisciplinarity in Philosophy and Science : Approaches, Problems, Prospects, Navigator, Moscow, 2015, p.62-79.
The Transdisciplinary Evolution of Learning
Talk at the American Educational Research Association (AERA), Annual Meeting, Montréal, Canada, April 1999, Round-Table " Overcoming the Underdevelopment of Learning : a Trandsdisciplinary View", with the participation of Leon Lederman (Nobel Prize of Physics), Jan Visser, Ron Burnett et al.
Anchoring Transdisciplinarity through a Network of Networks
Invited talk at the Inaugural Seminar of the International Network for Interdisciplinarity and Transdisciplinarity (INIT), Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands, June 16-17, 2011.
The Need for Transdisciplinarity in Higher Education (pdf file)
Keynote speaker talk at the International Higher Education Congress "New Trends and Issues", Istanbul, Turkey, May 27-29, 2011.
The Need for Transdisciplinarity in Higher Education (ppt file)
Keynote speaker talk at the International Higher Education Congress "New Trends and Issues", Istanbul, Turkey, May 27-29, 2011.
Transdisciplinarity: The Hidden Third, Between the Subject and the Object
Invited talk at the International Workshop "Science, Spirituality, Society", Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 21 May 2009.
Toward a Methodological Foundation of the Dialogue Between the Technoscientific and the Spiritual Cultures
Opening talk at the 6th International Congress on Philosophy and Culture « Differentiation and Integration of Worldviews:
Dynamics of Dialogue Between Cultures in the XXI Century », Sankt Petersburg, Russia, November 2003, Russian Academy of Science
Published in Differentiation and Integration of Worldviews, series « International Readings on Theory,
History and Philosophy of Culture » n° 18, Eidos, Sankt Petersburg, 2004, edited by Liubava Moreva, p. 139-152.
Heisenberg and the Levels of Reality
European Journal of Science and Theology, Academic Organisation for Environmental Engineering and Sustainable Development, Iasi, Romania, Vol. 2, n° 1, March 2006, p. 9-19, arXiv:physics/0601156.
Transdisciplinarity - past, present and future
Published in Moving Worldviews - Reshaping sciences, policies and practices for endogenous sustainable development, COMPAS Editions, Holland, 2006, edited by Bertus Haverkort and Coen Reijntjes, p. 142-166.
Transdisciplinarity: Basarab Nicolescu Talks with Russ Volckmann
Integral Review, Arina Publishing House, USA, Issue N째 4, 2007.
International Congresses on Transdisciplinarity: Their Importance for the Emergence of a Transdisciplinary Methodology
Interview by Augusta Thereza de Alvarenga, published in Transdisciplinarity in Science and Religion, n째 3, 2008, Curtea Veche Publ., Bucharest, p. 193-202.
Peter Brook and Traditional Thought
This essay was originally published in French in Les Voies de la Création Théâtrale, Vol. XIII (CNRS Editions, Paris, 1985, edited by Georges Banu). The second half (starting with the section titled "Theatre, Determinism and Spontaneity") was first published in English in Contemporary Theatre Review, Vol VII, pp. 11-23, Copyright © 1997 OPA (Overseas Publishers Association), N.V.
Spiritual Dimension of Democracy: Utopia or Necessity?
Published in Andrei Marga, Theodor Bercheim and Jan Sadlak (Ed.), Living in Truth, Cluj University Press, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, 2008, p. 509-516.
The Idea of Levels of Reality - Its Relevance for Non-Reduction and Personhood
International Congress "Subject, Self, and Soul: Transdisciplinary Approaches to Personhood", Opening talk of the mini-conference "Exploring Non-Reduction and Levels of Reality", Universidad Pontificia Comillas, Madrid, Spain, 13 July 2008 Published in Transdisciplinarity in Science and Religion, n째 4, 2008, Curtea Veche Publ., Bucharest, p. 11-25.
Disciplinary Boundaries - What Are They and How They Can Be Transgressed?
To be published in the special issue "Research Across Boundaries - Advances in Integrative Meta-studies and Research Practice", Integral Review - A Transdisciplinary and Transcultural Journal for New Thought, Research and Praxis, USA, 2010.