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<div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content mw-content-ltr" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><p>"<b>Unified Science</b>" can refer to any of three related strands in contemporary thought.
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<ul><li>Belief in the <a href="Unity_of_science" title="Unity of science">unity of science</a> was a central tenet of <a href="Logical_positivism" title="Logical positivism">logical positivism</a>. Different logical positivists construed this doctrine in several different ways, e.g. as a <a href="Reductionism" title="Reductionism">reductionist</a> thesis, that the objects investigated by the <a href="Special_sciences" title="Special sciences">special sciences</a> reduce to the objects of a common, putatively more basic domain of science, usually thought to be physics; as the thesis that all of the theories and results of the various sciences can or ought to be expressed in a common language or "universal slang"; or as the thesis that all the special sciences share a common <a href="Scientific_method" title="Scientific method">method</a>.</li>
<li>The writings of <a href="Edward_Haskell" title="Edward Haskell">Edward Haskell</a> and a few associates, seeking to rework science into a single discipline employing a common artificial language. This work culminated in the 1972 publication of <i><a href="Full_Circle_(Haskell)" class="mw-redirect" title="Full Circle (Haskell)">Full Circle: The Moral Force of Unified Science</a></i>. The vast part of the work of Haskell and his contemporaries remains unpublished, however. Timothy Wilken and <a href="Anthony_Judge" title="Anthony Judge">Anthony Judge</a> have recently revived and extended the insights of Haskell and his coworkers.</li>
<li>Unified Science has been a consistent thread since the 1940s in <a href="Howard_T._Odum" title="Howard T. Odum">Howard T. Odum</a>'s <a href="Systems_ecology" title="Systems ecology">systems ecology</a> and the associated <a href="Emergy_Synthesis" class="mw-redirect" title="Emergy Synthesis">Emergy Synthesis</a>, modeling the "<a href="Ecosystem" title="Ecosystem">ecosystem</a>": the geochemical, biochemical, and thermodynamic processes of the <a href="Lithosphere" title="Lithosphere">lithosphere</a> and <a href="Biosphere" title="Biosphere">biosphere</a>. Modeling such earthly processes in this manner requires a science uniting geology, physics, biology, and chemistry (H.T.Odum 1995). With this in mind, Odum developed a <a href="Energy_Systems_Language" class="mw-redirect" title="Energy Systems Language"> common language of science</a> based on electronic schematics, with applications to ecology economic systems in mind (H.T.Odum 1994).</li></ul>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2></div>
<ul><li><a href="Consilience" title="Consilience">Consilience</a> — the unification of knowledge, <i>e.g.</i> science and the humanities</li>
<li><a href="Tree_of_knowledge_system" title="Tree of knowledge system">Tree of knowledge system</a></li></ul>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2></div>
<ul><li>Odum, H.T. 1994. <i>Ecological and General Systems: An Introduction to Systems Ecology.</i> Colorado University Press, Colorado.</li>
<li>Odum, H.T. 1995. 'Energy Systems and the Unification of Science', in Hall, C.S. (ed.) <i>Maximum Power: The Ideas and Applications of H.T. Odum.</i> Colorado University Press, Colorado: 365-372.</li></ul>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2></div>
<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://futurepositive.synearth.net/">Future Positive</a> Timothy Wilken's website, including a lot of material and diagrams on Edward Haskell's Unified Science</li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://laetusinpraesens.org/docs00s/cardioid.php">Cardioid Attractor Fundamental to Sustainability - 8 transactional games forming the heart of sustainable relationship</a> Anthony Judge's further development of these ideas</li></ul></div><!--htdig_noindex--><div><div class="zim-footer">
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