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Special Sciences and the Unity of Science

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Editors:
  1. Olga Pombo

    1. Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

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  2. Juan Manuel Torres

    1. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Mendoza, Argentina

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  3. John Symons

    1. Department of Philosophy, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, USA

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  4. Shahid Rahman

    1. , UFR Philosophie/ UMR-STL: 8163, Université de Lille, Villeneuve d'Asque, France

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  • 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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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
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  2. Introduction

    • Olga Pombo, Juan Manuel Torres, John Symons, Shahid Rahman
    Pages 1-3

  3. Pragmatic Continuities in Empirical Science: Some Examples from the History of Astronomy

    • María de la Concepción Caamaño Alegre
    Pages 5-18

  4. The Principle of Eurhythmy: A Key to the Unity of Physics

    • J. R. Croca
    Pages 19-51

  5. Unifying Science Through Computation: Reflections on Computability and Physics

    • Edwin J. Beggs, José Félix Costa, John V. Tucker
    Pages 53-80

  6. Looking at Water Through Paradigms

    • A. Perera, F. Sokolić
    Pages 81-87

  7. Introducing Universal Symbiogenesis

    • Nathalie Gontier
    Pages 89-111

  8. The Symbiotic Phenomenon in the Evolutive Context

    • Francisco Carrapiço
    Pages 113-119

  9. Plant Neurobiology: Lessons for the Unity of Science

    • Paco Calvo Garzón
    Pages 121-136

  10. Computer Science Meets Evolutionary Biology: Pure Possible Processes and the Issue of Gradualism

    • Philippe Huneman
    Pages 137-162

  11. Evolutionary Psychology and the Unity of Sciences: Towards an Evolutionary Epistemology

    • Luís Moniz Pereira
    Pages 163-175

  12. Unity of Science and Pluralism: Cognitive Neurosciences of Racial Prejudice as a Case Study

    • Luc Faucher
    Pages 177-204

  13. Sciences as Open Systems – The Case of Economics

    • Vítor Neves
    Pages 205-217

  14. Plurality of Science and Rational Integration of Knowledge

    • Catherine Laurent
    Pages 219-231

  15. A Physicalist Reconstruction of a Theory: The Case of the Freudian Theory of Hysteria

    • César Lorenzano
    Pages 233-257

  16. The Cultural Sciences and Their Basis in Life. On Ernst Cassirer’s Theory of the Cultural Sciences

    • Christian Möckel
    Pages 259-267

  17. Appearance or Existence of the Entity Realism ‘Sense’ or Mind

    • A. Yazdani
    Pages 269-276

  18. Fiction, Counterfactuals: The Challenge for Logic

    • Brian Hill
    Pages 277-299
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Science is a dynamic process in which the assimilation of new phenomena, perspectives, and hypotheses into the scientific corpus takes place slowly. The apparent disunity of the sciences is the unavoidable consequence of this gradual integration process. Some thinkers label this dynamical circumstance a ‘crisis’. However, a retrospective view of the practical results of the scientific enterprise and of science itself, grants us a clear view of the unity of the human knowledge seeking enterprise. This book provides many arguments, case studies and examples in favor of the unity of science. These contributions touch upon various scientific perspectives and disciplines such as: Physics, Computer Science, Biology, Neuroscience, Cognitive Psychology, and Economics.

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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

  • Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

    Olga Pombo

  • Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Mendoza, Argentina

    Juan Manuel Torres

  • Department of Philosophy, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, USA

    John Symons

  • , UFR Philosophie/ UMR-STL: 8163, Université de Lille, Villeneuve d'Asque, France

    Shahid Rahman

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