Individualism and the Unity of Science(English, Paperback, Kincaid Harold)

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Individualism and the Unity of Science(English, Paperback, Kincaid Harold) is written by Kincaid Harold and published by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0847686639 (ISBN 10) and 9780847686636 (ISBN 13).

In this original and important book, Harold Kincaid defends a view of the special sciences-all sciences outside physics-as autonomous and nonreducible. He argues that the biological and social sciences provide explanations that cannot be captured by explanations at the level of their constituent parts, and yet that this does not commit us to mysterious, nonphysical entitites like vital forces or group minds. A look at real scientific practice shows that the many different sciences can be unified in a way that leaves them each an autonomous explanatory role. This book will be of great interest to philosophers of science and social scientists.