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Naturalism and the Unity of Science

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Otto Neurath and the Unity of Science

Part of the book series: Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science ((LEUS,volume 18))

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Naturalism as a view in epistemology and ontology insists that the unity of science is a crucial methodological postulate. However, naturalism encounters a serious difficulty, particularly in the humanities and social sciences. The difficulty in question is related to normativity as an essential feature of social and cultural phenomena. This paper argues that there is a possibility to meet the problem of normativity in frameworks of naturalism.

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  1. Institute of Philosophy, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland

    Jan Woleński

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  1. Department of Philosophy, University of Texas at El Paso, Worrell Hall 306, El Paso, 79968, Texas, USA

    John Symons

  2. Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Campo Grande, Lisboa, 1749-016, Portugal

    Olga Pombo

  3. Inst. Ciencias Básicas, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Ciudad Universitaria, Mendoza, 5500, Argentina

    Juan Manuel Torres

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Woleński, J. (2011). Naturalism and the Unity of Science. In: Symons, J., Pombo, O., Torres, J. (eds) Otto Neurath and the Unity of Science. Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science, vol 18. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0143-4_14

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