(The Austrian College Society had been founded in 1945 by Austrian resistance fighters, "to provide a forum for the exchange of scholars and ideas and so to prepare the political unification of Europe" (Science in a Free Society, p. 109)).
At the concrete perceptual level, one may also focus on the role of visual representations in the sciences and assess what may be called graphic unification of the sciences.
Diderot stressed in his own entry, "Encyclopaedia", that the word Encyclopedia signifies the unification of the sciences.
Kant's ideas set the frame of reference for discussions of the unification of the sciences in German thought throughout the nineteenth century (Wood and Hahn 2011).
Precisely how such a unification of the sciences was to be effected or understood remained a matter for further discussion (see section 3.3 below).
Much like certain naturalists today, he argued that "materialism requires the unification of philosophy and science," thus denying any substantive distinction between science and philosophy (Horkheimer1993, 34).
A more radical departure is the recent criticism of the methodological values of reductionism and unification in science and also its position in culture and society.
For those majoring in a social science or humanity, this deprives culture of its value and denies it any meaningful role in the purported "unification of the behavioral sciences".
Does the unification of these parts of science involve only matters of fact or are matters of value involved as well?
Gintis (2000, 2009) feels justified in stating that "game theory is a universal language for the unification of the behavioral sciences".
The relevant relation between different theories would not be the wholesale unification of all relevant sciences, as in the dream of classical reductionism (see the entry on intertheory relations in physics).
