Special Sciences and the Unity of Science

1. Introduction.- 2.Pragmatic continuities in Empirical Science. Some Examples from the History of Astronomy; Maria de la Concepcion Caamaño Alegre.- 3. The Principle of Eurhythmy. A Key to the Unity of Physics; J.R. Croca.- 4. Unifying Science through Computation: Reflection on Computability and Physics; Edwin J. Beggs; José Félix Costa; John V. Tucker.- 5. Looking at Water through Paradigms; A. Perera; F. Sokolić.- 6. Introducing Universal Symbiogenesis; Nathalie Gontier.- 7. The Symbiotic Phenomenon in the Evolutive Context; Francisco Carrapiço.- 8. Plant Neurobiology: Lessons for the Unity of Science; Paco Calvo Garzón.- 9. Computer Science meets Evolutionary Biology: Pure Possible Processes and the Issue of Gradualism; Philippe Huneman.- 10. Evolutionary Phsychology and the Unity of Sciences – Towards an Evolutionary Epistemology; Luís Moniz Pereira.- 11. Unity of Science and Pluralism: Cognitive Neurosciences of Racial Prejudice as a Case Study; Luc Faucher.- 12. Sciences as Open Systems: The Case of Economics; Vítor Neves.- 13. Plurality of Science and Rational Integration of Knowledge; Catherine Laurent.- 14. A Physicalist Reconstruction of  a Theory: the Case of the Freudian Theory of Hysteria; César Lorenzano.- 15. The Cultural Sciences and their Basis in Life. On Ernst Cassirer’s Theory of the Cultural Sciences; Christian Möckel.- 16. Appearance on Existence of the Entity Realism ‘Sense’ or Mind; A. Yazdini.- 17. Fiction, Counterfactuals: The Challenge for Logic; Brian Hill.-