Special Sciences and the Unity of Science

1. Introduction. - 2. Pragmatic continuities in Empirical Science. Some Examples from the History of Astronomy; Maria de la Concepcion Caamaño Alegre. - 3. The Principle of Eurhythmy. A Key to the Unity of Physics; J. R. Croca. - 4. Unifying Science through Computation: Reflection on Computability and Physics; Edwin J. Beggs; José Félix Costa; John V. Tucker. - 5. Looking at Water through Paradigms; A. Perera; F. Sokoli . - 6. Introducing Universal Symbiogenesis; Nathalie Gontier. - 7. The Symbiotic Phenomenon in the Evolutive Context; Francisco Carrapiço. - 8. Plant Neurobiology: Lessons for the Unity of Science; Paco Calvo Garzón. - 9. Computer Science meets Evolutionary Biology: Pure Possible Processes and the Issue of Gradualism; Philippe Huneman. - 10. Evolutionary Phsychology and the Unity of Sciences Towards an Evolutionary Epistemology; Luís Moniz Pereira. - 11. Unity of Science and Pluralism: Cognitive Neurosciences of Racial Prejudice as a Case Study; Luc Faucher. - 12. Sciences as Open Systems: The Case of Economics; Vítor Neves. - 13. Plurality of Science and Rational Integration of Knowledge; Catherine Laurent. - 14. A Physicalist Reconstruction of a Theory: the Case of the Freudian Theory of Hysteria; César Lorenzano. - 15. The Cultural Sciences and their Basis in Life. On Ernst Cassirer s Theory of the Cultural Sciences; Christian Möckel. - 16. Appearance on Existence of the Entity Realism `Sense or Mind; A. Yazdini. - 17. Fiction, Counterfactuals: The Challenge for Logic; Brian Hill. -