Otto Neurath and the Unity of Science

Preface; 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.