Otto Neurath and the Unity of Science

InhaltsangabePreface; John Symons.- Introduction; Olga Pombo and Juan Torres.- Part 1 - Neurath.- Unity of Science and Logical Empiricism; Otto Neurath.- The Neurath-Horkeimer-Controversy Reconsidered. Otto Neurath's Erwiderung to Max Horkeimer's Attack against the Vienna Circle; Karlheinz Barck.- Otto Neurath's Epistemology and Its Paradoxes; Jan Sebestik.- Neurath and the Encyclopaedic Project of the Unity of Science; Olga Pombo.- Principles and Practices of Neurath's Language; Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen.- Conceptions of Reality - Schlick, Carnap, Neurath; Thomas Bonk.- Keeping Track of Neurath's Bill: Abstract Concepts, Stock Models and the Unity of Classical Physics; Sheldon Steed, Gabriele Contessa and Nancy Cartwright.- G. Itelson - A Socratic Philosopher; Gideon Freudenthal and Tatiana Karachentsev.- Part 2 - Unity.- Unity without Myths; Daniel Andler.- Two Unification Strategies: Analysis or Reduction, and Synthesis or Integration; Mario Bunge.- A Comprehensible World; Robert L. Causey.- Unified Science? Does Scientific Progress Necessarily Lead to a Unified Science?; C. Ulises Moulines.- The Achilles' Heel of the Program for the Unity of Science; Juan Manuel Torres.- Scientific Reasonableness and the Pragmatic Approach to the Unity of Science; Andrés Rivadulla.- Naturalism and the Unity of Science; Jan Wolenski.- Searching the Unity of Science: From Classical Logic to Abductive Logical Systems; Angel Nepomuceno, Fernando Soler, Atocha Aliseda.- Direct Abduction through Dual Resolution; Fernando Soler, Angel Nepomuceno.- Index.