Overview
- Unique work on the tension between unity and specialization in science
- Provocative questions to test the hypothesis of science unification from a interdisciplinary perspective. For example: is Evolutionary Biology part of Computer Science?
- Offers a set of case-studies in favour of the Unity of Science
Part of the book series: Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science (LEUS, volume 24)
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“The volume at hand … covers a wide range of special sciences from astronomy and physics to Freudian theory and the cultural sciences. … essays collected in this volume are of interest to philosophers working in these areas. The approach taken in this book fits within the broader context of bringing fresh ideas to an old debate. … The papers contain an interesting balance between scientific depth and philosophical speculation on how the unity of the sciences might work in some actual cases … .” (Hinne Hettema, Philosophy in Review, Vol. XXXIII (4), 2013)Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Special Sciences and the Unity of Science
Editors: Olga Pombo, Juan Manuel Torres, John Symons, Shahid Rahman
Series Title: Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2030-5
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-2029-9Published: 01 February 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9213-5Published: 16 April 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-2030-5Published: 01 February 2012
Series ISSN: 2214-9775
Series E-ISSN: 2214-9783
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 302
Topics: Philosophy of Science, Logic, Mathematical Methods in Physics