La unificación de la física de Maxwell y su idea de “fertilización mutua de las ciencias” como desiderata metodológicos no reduccionistas para la ciencia social

Jordi Mundó

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Maxwell´s unification of physics and his idea on “cross-fertilization of sciences” as a methodological desiderata for social sciences

Maxwell’s contribution to unification of electricity, magnetism and optics completely changed nineteenth-century physics, and its recategorization set the bases for the twentieth-century physics revolution. Modern social science is a fragmented field, characterized both by a poor integration between the concepts of economics, sociology, anthropology, psychology and history, and for a striking isolation from natural science. This article will explore the importance of incorporating to social science the methodological criteria of Maxwell’s own conception in favor of a non-reductionist wide-ranging causal and conceptual integration between social science and natural science.

 

Key words: Unification, cross-fertilization of sciences, methodological Maxwellism, conceptual integration, philosophy of the social sciences, analogy, heuristics, scientific metaphor.

 


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