Unity of Knowledge

Arun Bala

Rory Allen

Arkady Plotnitsky

P. H. van Cittert

Vanessa A. Seifert

Harold Kincaid in Individualism and the Unity of Science postulates a model of unity-without-reduction in order to accurately describe the relation between individualism and macroeconomics. I present this model and apply it to the description of the relation between chemistry and quantum mechanics. I argue that, when it comes to the description of molecular structure, chemistry and quantum mechanics are unified in Kincaid’s sense. Specifically, the two disciplines contribute to the formation of a unified body of knowledge with respect to molecular structure.

Gabriel Vacarìu

In this paper, I argue that the wrong notion of the “world ” (I called it the “unicorn-world”) has to be replaced by the “epistemologically different worlds ” (EDWs). Working in the unicorn-world in the last century, the physicists have tried to solve some pseudo-problems of quantum mechanics like non-locality and entanglement with pseudo-alternatives like multiverse approach and decoherence. EDWs perspective clarifies many notions from quantum theory, in particular, and physics, in general. I. The unicorn-world vs. the epistemologically different worlds269 There are some key elements that have framed human thinking from the beginning, the human subject, the world (or universe) and the perceptual-conceptual frameworks through which the subject observes-conceives the world. Directly correlated to these key elements there are three concepts of unity which have played a major role in science and philosophy, the unity of self (consciousness), the unity of the world, and the unity of knowledge and of science. As I showed in Vacariu (2005) the assumption of the unity of the world or uni-verse represents a major error in human thinking and this error has