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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 / editors, Evandro Agazzi, Jan Faye.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Academie internationale de philosophie des sciences. Meeting (2000 : Copenhagen, Denmark, and Arhus, Denmark)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Reductionism--Congresses.
- Reductionism.
- Science--Philosophy--Congresses.
- Science.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvi, 194 p. ) ill.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- River Edge, NJ : World Scientific, c2001.
- Language Note:
- English and French.
- Summary:
- 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. Multidisciplinarity and interdisciplinarity have also been proposed as methodologies for attaining unity without underestimating the diversity of the sciences. This volume starts with a clarification of the possible meanings of this unity and then discusses the features of the mentioned approaches to unity, evaluating the success and the shortcomings of the unification programme among different sciences and within a single science.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Part I. The General Framework
- What does 'The Unity of Science' Mean?
- E. Agazz
- The Unity of Disunity
- J. Faye
- Reason and Unification in Science
- D. Shapere
- L'unit6 des sciences: une double tache pour la philosophie
- H. Barreau
- La"poi6sis" et al'unite de la rationalit6
- G. Heinzmann
- Part 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
- Part lm. Overcoming Reductionism
- Complexity, Reductionism, and the Unity of Science
- J. Ricard
- L'interdisciplinarit6 et unit6 de la science
- J.-P. Descles
- The Consilience Approach to the Unity of Science
- B. Kanitscheider
- Part 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.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9786611948375
- 9781281948373
- 1281948373
- 9789812799593
- 9812799591
- OCLC:
- 815754238
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