A unity-of-science movement arose in the Vienna Circle, a group of scientists and philosophers that met regularly in Vienna in the 1920s and '30s and was associated in particular with Rudolf Carnap and Otto Neurath.
Versions of the unity-of-science thesis are still supported by many contemporary philosophers of science.
Design semantics is an integration of human mode of existence and view on culture and art, which means it is a unity of art and science.
In the wake of institutions such as the International Committee on Monism and the International Council of Scientific Unions, Neurath spearheaded a movement for Unity of Science in 1934 that encouraged international cooperation among scientists and launched the project of an International Encyclopedia of Unity of Science.
A friend of the unity of science, on the other hand, might respond by claiming that this natural inclination arises only because one is ignorant of the neuroscientific details.
In August 1939 Tarski traveled to the United States to attend a congress of the Unity of Science movement (see Vienna Circle).
The intelligent design movement is a threat to the unity of science, as its confessed goal is to restore Christian theology as the queen of the sciences.
Sharply to be distinguished from this first thesis of the Unity of Science is a second that formulates a reductionism of a very different type: whereas the first thesis concerns the unity of the observational basis of all the sciences, the second proposes (tentatively) a unity of the explanatory principles of science.
The Nagel model of theory reduction offers a clear vision of the "unity of science" (see the entry on unity of science).
For the organization of the congresses and related activities, Neurath founded the Unity of Science Institute in 1936, which was renamed in 1937 as the International Institute for the Unity of Science, a special department of his Mundaneum Institute at The Hague.
Scientific reduction became an important topic in the philosophy of science within the context of a general interest in the unity of science, and it was inspired by specific alleged cases of successful reductions.
