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Interdisciplinary integration in biology? An overview

✍ Scribed by Wim J. Steen

Publisher
Springer
Year
1990
Tongue
English
Weight
982 KB
Volume
38
Category
Article
ISSN
0001-5342

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✦ Synopsis

Philosophical theories about reduction and integration in science are at variance with what is happening in science. A realistic approach to science shows that possibilities for reduction and integration are limited. The classical ideal of a unified science has since long been rejected in philosophy. But the current emphasis on interdisciplinary integration in philosophy and in science shows that it survives in a different guise. It is necessary to redress the balance, specifically in biology. Methodological analysis shows that many of the grand interdisciplinary theories involving biology actually represent pseudo-integration covered up by inappropriate, overgeneral concepts. Integrationism is not bad, but it must be kept within reasonable bounds. If the present analysis is appropriate, there will have to be fundamental changes in research strategy both in science and in the philosophy of science.

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