""Latest version: Where does it all come from? Where are we going? Are we alone in the universe? What is good and what is evil? The scientific narrative of cosmic evolution demands that we tackle such big questions with a cosmological perspective. Keywords: cognitive values, cognitive axiology, evaluation standards in philosophy, philosophical criteria, worldview assessment, worldview comparison, coherent worldview, comprehensive worldview, scope of philosophy, mission of philosophy, definition of philosophy, task of philosophy, philosophical method, Flying Spaghetti Monster, Intelligent Design, science-and-religion dialog. As another application, we draw more general fruitful suggestions for the science-and-religion dialog. Then we apply these criteria and tests to a concrete example, comparing the Flying Spaghetti Monster deity with Intelligent Design. These include the is-ought, ought-act and is-act first-order tests the critical and dialectical second-order tests the mixed-questions and first-second-order synthetical third order tests and the we-I, we-it and it-I tests. From the criteria, we derive assessment tests to compare and improve different worldviews. After describing each criterion individually, we show what happens when each of them is violated.
We first define what a worldview is and expose the heuristic used in our quest for criteria.
To fill this gap, we introduce nine criteria to compare worldviews, classified in three broad categories: objective criteria (objective consistency, scientificity, scope) subjective criteria (subjective consistency, personal utility, emotionality) and intersubjective criteria (intersubjective consistency, collective utility, narrativity).
Philosophy lacks criteria to evaluate its philosophical theories.
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