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==Overview==
The unity of science thesis was proposed by [[Ludwig von Bertalanffy]] in "General System Theory: A New Approach to Unity of Science" (1951) and by [[Paul Oppenheim]] and [[Hilary Putnam]] in "Unity of Science as a Working Hypothesis" (1958). It has been opposed by [[Jerry Fodor]] in "Special Sciences (Or: The Disunity of Science as a Working Hypothesis)" (1974), by [[Paul Feyerabend]] in ''Against Method'' (1975) and later works, and by [[John Dupré]] in "The Disunity of Science" (1983) and ''The Disorder of Things: Metaphysical Foundations of the Disunity of Science'' (1993). [[Jason Josephson Storm]], a philosopher of social science, has also critiqued the unity of science while arguing that this avoids [[Anti-realism#Scientific_anti-realism|scientific anti-realism]] and simplifies debates about the relationship between social and [[natural kind|natural kinds]].<ref>{{Cite book| publisher = University of Chicago Press| isbn = 978-0-226-78665-0| last = Storm| first = Jason Josephson| title = Metamodernism: The Future of Theory| ___location = Chicago | pages=75, 284 | date = 2021 | url = https://www.google.com/books/edition/Metamodernism/pEQ6EAAAQBAJ}}</ref>
It has also been suggested (for example, in [[Jean Piaget]]'s 1918 work ''Recherche'') that the unity of science can be considered in terms of a circle of the sciences, where logic is the foundation for mathematics, which is the foundation for mechanics and physics, and physics is the foundation for chemistry, which is the foundation for biology, which is the foundation for sociology, the moral sciences, psychology, and the theory of knowledge, and the theory of knowledge is based on logic.<ref>{{Cite web|website=www.fondationjeanpiaget.ch|title=Recherche|last=Piaget|first=Jean|author-link=Jean Piaget|date=2006|orig-year=1918|access-date=9 February 2017|url=http://www.fondationjeanpiaget.ch/fjp/site/textes/VE/JP_18_Recherche.pdf}}</ref>
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