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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.

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The investigation of the mind has been one of the major concerns of our philosophical tradition and it still is a dominant subject in modern philosophy as well as in science. Many philosophers in the scientific tradition want to solve the "puzzles of the mind". But many philosophers in the very same tradition do regard these puzzles as puzzles of the brain. So, whilst the former think of the mental as something of its own kind, the latter deny that philosophy of mind has to do with anything else but the brain. And then there are those who think that reduction is the way to go: maybe the mental is brain-dependent and hence reducible to the physical, in some way. This volume collects contributions comprising all those points of view, including articles by William Bechtel, Jerry Fodor, Jaegwon Kim, Joëlle Proust and Patrick Suppes.

Ethics. --- Philosophy of mind -- Congresses. --- Psychology -- Philosophy. --- Reductionism -- Congresses. --- Social Sciences --- Philosophy --- Philosophy & Religion --- Speculative Philosophy --- Psychology --- Thought and thinking. --- Mind and body. --- Mind --- Thinking --- Thoughts --- Body and mind --- Body and soul (Philosophy) --- Human body --- Mind-body connection --- Mind-body relations --- Mind-cure --- Somatopsychics --- Psychological aspects --- Educational psychology --- Intellect --- Logic --- Perception --- Psycholinguistics --- Self --- Brain --- Dualism --- Philosophical anthropology --- Holistic medicine --- Mental healing --- Parousia (Philosophy) --- Phrenology --- Psychophysiology