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Pages: 296
Authors: Olga Pombo
Categories: Science
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Individualism and the Unity of Science
Language: en
Pages: 182
Authors: Harold Kincaid
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997 - Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

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In this original and important book, Harold Kincaid defends a view of the special sciences -- all sciences outside physics -- as autonomous and nonreducible. He
Scientific Pluralism Reconsidered
Language: en
Pages: 252
Authors: Stephanie Ruphy
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-12-23 - Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press

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Can we expect our scientific theories to make up a unified structure, or do they form a kind of "patchwork" whose pieces remain independent from each other? Doe
Special Sciences and the Unity of Science
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Pages: 296
Authors: Olga Pombo
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-02-01 - Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

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The Unity of Science
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Authors: Rudolf Carnap
Categories: Philosophy
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As a leading member of the Vienna Circle, Rudolph Carnap's aim was to bring about a "unified science" by applying a method of logical analysis to the empirical