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The problem of the unity of science : proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the International Academy of the Philosophy of Science, Copenhagen-Aarhus, Denmark, 31 May-3 June 2000 /

The unity of science has been a widely discussed issue both in the philosophy of science and within several sciences. Reductionism has often been seen as the means of bringing the different sciences to a fundamental unity by reference to some basic science, but it shows many limitations. Multidiscip...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: Académie internationale de philosophie des sciences. Meeting
Otros Autores: Agazzi, Evandro, Faye, Jan
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Francés
Publicado: River Edge, NJ : World Scientific, ©2001.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / E. Agazzi and J. Faye
  • Part I. The general framework. What does 'The unity of science' mean? / E. Agazzi
  • The unity of disunity / J. Faye
  • Reason and unification in science / D. Shapere
  • L'unite des sciences: une double tache pour la philosophie / H. Barreau
  • La"poiesis" et al'unite de la rationalite / G. Heinzmann
  • pt. II. Sciences of nature and sciences of man. On a difference between natural science and the interpretive sciences of man / F. Collin
  • General remarks on the problem of the unity of science / H. Fink
  • Natural sciences and human sciences / G.M. Prosperi
  • pt. III. Overcoming reductionism. Complexity, reductionism, and the unity of science / J. Ricard
  • L'interdisciplinarite et unite de la science / J.-P. Descles
  • The consilience approach to the unity of science / B. Kanitscheider
  • pt. IV. The unity within a single science. Two unification strategies in social science: Reduction and integration / M. Bunge
  • The problem of unity in a single field of science / A. Cordero
  • The unity of particle physics and cosmology? The case of the cosmological constant / J. Mosterin
  • What if quantum mechanics is universally valid? / P. Mittelstaedt
  • Is quantum mechanics a universal theory? / B. d'Espagnat.