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Introduction; J. Götschl. Part I: Characteristic Features in Economic Science. The Economic Science of Today and Facts: A Critical Analysis of Some Characteristic Features; M. Allais. Technical Change Without Humans: Innovation in the Neoclassical Economic Theory; G. Rosegger. Part II: Discovery, Creativity, Cognition and Computation: Basic Structures. The Theory of Scientific Discovery; H.A. Simon. Understanding Creativity; M.A. Boden. The Role of Simulation Models in the Cognitive Sciences; A. Carsetti. The Mind and Computation; J.R. Searle. Part III: Towards a Science of Man and Society: Philosophical and Methodological Foundations. Self-Organization: New Foundations Towards a `General Theory of Reality'; J. Götschl. Towards a Science of Man; O. Schwemmer. Part IV: Rationality, Complexity and Uncertainty: New Interrelations. The New Theory of Evolution - A Theory of Democratic Societies; W. Leinfellner. Risk in Utility Theory, in Business and in the World of Fear and Hope; O. Hagen. Rational Choice Theory: A Critical Look at Its Foundations; M. Bunge. Complexity, the Concept of Uncertainty and Bounded Rationality of Man; B. Munier. Security. On the Reasons for the Sinking Acceptance of Risk; H. Lübbe. Part V: Aesthetical and Ethical Patterns. Nature as a Work of Art; P. Feyerabend. Ethics in Science - Substance or Rhetoric? J. Mittelstrass. Name Index. Subject Index.