Note to moderator: Read the answerline carefully. Note to players: Description acceptable. Otto Neurath contrasted his “encyclopedia model” of this idea with Rudolf Carnap’s foundationalist “system model.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this idea that can be developed by repeated “micro-reduction” according to Paul Oppenheim and Hilary Putnam’s paper on this idea “as a working hypothesis.” Jerry Fodor criticized this idea in a paper on certain “special” systems.
ANSWER: the unity of science [accept unified science or the unification of science; accept descriptions indicating that all sciences are the same or that all sciences are connected; accept descriptions of the idea that all science reduces to physics; accept “Unity of Science as a Working Hypothesis”; prompt on unity of knowledge; prompt on reductionism]
[10m] Two answers required. Oppenheim and Putnam say that a branch of science “micro-reduces” another if the objects they study can be described as these two sets of concepts. The relationship between these two sets of concepts is studied in mere·ology.
ANSWER: parts AND wholes
[10e] Nancy Cartwright and Ian Hacking are part of a philosophical school named for this university that opposes the unity of science. This university owns the url “plato.[this university].edu.”
ANSWER: Stanford University [accept Stanford School or Stanford Disunity Mafia]
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