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Against the unification of the behavioral sciences

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 April 2007

Steve Clarke
Steve Clarke
Affiliation:
Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, Charles Sturt University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia Program on the Ethics of the New Biosciences, James Martin 21st Century School, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 1PT, United Kingdom. [email protected]://www.cappe.edu.au/people/clarst/clarst.htm
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Abstract

The contemporary behavioral sciences are disunified and could not easily become unified, as they operate with incompatible explanatory models. According to Gintis, tolerance of this situation is “scandalous” (sect. 12). I defend the ordinary behavioral scientist's lack of commitment to a unifying explanatory model and identify several reasons why the behavioral sciences should remain disunified for the foreseeable future.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 30 , Issue 1 , February 2007 , pp. 21 - 22
Copyright
2007 Cambridge University Press

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