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Making a distinction between unity and unification and within Carnap’s framework, we will proceed to determine the program of the unity of science as the integration of scientific laws and theories. After that, the role of an evolutionary theory – the Darwinian hypothesis – in this program is examined in a contemporary proposal that seeks the sources of normic laws.
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The author would like to thank to the anonymous reviewer for his/her helpful and critical comments to the first version of this paper. This research was supported by Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion de España. Proyecto SEJ 2007-60023.
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Torres, J.M. (2011). The Role of Biology in the Unity of Science Program. In: Symons, J., Pombo, O., Torres, J. (eds) Otto Neurath and the Unity of Science. Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science, vol 18. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0143-4_13
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