Special Sciences and the Unity of Science

1. Introduction
Olga Pombo, Juan Manuel Torres, John Symons, Shahid Rahman

2. Pragmatic Continuities in Empirical Science: Some Examples from the History of Astronomy
María Concepción Caamaño Alegre

3. The Principle of Eurhythmy: A Key to the Unity of Physics
J. R. Croca

4. Unifying Science Through Computation: Reflections on Computability and Physics
Edwin J. Beggs, José Félix Costa, John V. Tucker

5. Looking at Water Through Paradigms
A. Perera, F. Sokolić

6. Introducing Universal Symbiogenesis
Nathalie Gontier

7. The Symbiotic Phenomenon in the Evolutive Context
Francisco Carrapiço

8. Plant Neurobiology: Lessons for the Unity of Science
Paco Calvo Garzón

9. Computer Science Meets Evolutionary Biology: Pure Possible Processes and the Issue of Gradualism
Philippe Huneman

10. Evolutionary Psychology and the Unity of Sciences: Towards an Evolutionary Epistemology
Luís Moniz Pereira

11. Unity of Science and Pluralism: Cognitive Neurosciences of Racial Prejudice as a Case Study
Luc Faucher

12. Sciences as Open Systems – The Case of Economics
Vítor Neves

13. Plurality of Science and Rational Integration of Knowledge
Catherine Laurent

14. A Physicalist Reconstruction of a Theory: The Case of the Freudian Theory of Hysteria
César Lorenzano

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

16. Appearance or Existence of the Entity Realism ‘Sense’ or Mind
A. Yazdani

17. Fiction, Counterfactuals: The Challenge for Logic
Brian Hill

Keywords: Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, Logic, Mathematical Methods in Physics