(2) Proponents of the unity of science have held the position that the theoretical entities of particular sciences, such as biology or psychology, are definable in terms of those of some more basic science, such as physics; or that the laws of these sciences can be explained by those of the more basic science.
How would the conceptual frameworks of particular sciences change if they reflected the interests of females (Anderson 1995b, Rolin 2009, Wajcman 2004, Waring 1990)?
In particular, the results of particular sciences such as evolutionary biology and psychology are not ruled a priori irrelevant to the solution of epistemological problems.
It is of interest to contemporary philosophers of science primarily because of the way in which Kant attempts to articulate a philosophical framework that places substantive conditions on our scientific knowledge of the world while still respecting the autonomy and diverse claims of particular sciences.
Beyond the philosophy of chemistry literature, this account has also been presupposed by critics of particular reductionist theses (e.g. Davidson, 1970), even when making points about inapplicability of Nagel's account to particular sciences (Kitcher, 1984).
The task of developing this more general conception of the efficient cause falls to the metaphysician, whose investigations transcend the concerns of any of the particular sciences, e.g., natural philosophy.
It might then be supposed that their concern with the world as a whole is to be interpreted as a summing up and synthesizing of the results of the particular sciences.
First, as al-Farabi taught, it is able to demonstrate the principles of the other sciences, because it is only this science, which investigates absolute beings and from them it provides an explanation of the principles of the particular sciences, comprised in it and below it.
We describe how, with the aid of simple extensions to VTP, Comet can help users filter high-volume streams of VOEvents to extract only those which are of relevance to particular science cases.
Relatively early in his career, when he was still under the sway of Fichte, the Neo-Kantians, and Bergson he defined philosophy as science [gakumon], i.e. unified conceptual knowledge, more specifically the first and universal science that "reflects on the basic concepts of the particular sciences in general and constructs of them one system of knowledge".
Indeed, metaphysics even demonstrates "the principles of the particular sciences" that investigate "the states of particular existent things" (Ilāhiyyāt, I, 2, 14, 18 15, 7) and are subordinate to it (Bertolacci 2006: Ch. 7).
