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Philosophical Reflection on the Consilience as a new Project to unify Sciences
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Korean Philosophical Society Journal of Korean Philosophical Society Vol.122 KCI Accredited Journals
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2012.6
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215 - 244 (30page)

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Philosophical Reflection on the Consilience as a new Project to unify Sciences
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The consilience proposed by E. Wilson is in fact a new project to unify sciences. The consilience, as it were, succeed to the idea of the unification of sciences executed by the Enlightenment and the Logical Positivism. But these two had ended in a failure. Hence the consilience tried to unify sciences in conformity to the evolutionary biology, to overcome the weak points implicated in the theoretical systems of the Enlightenment and the Logical Positivism. Nevertheless this consilience project has been confronted by many kinds of the objection: refutation to the reductionism, opposition to abandon traditional division of labor in various sciences, criticism on the political ideology implicated in that project etc. But these are not sufficient to pull down the consilience project. For these are based on the other language game than what the consilience is based on. If we would raise an objection to the consilience, we ought to work out a strategy by which the logical aporia in the theoretical system of the consilience disclosed. In this paper I pointed out a logical incoherence involved in the theoretical system of consilience. It was that the consilience contains two theses incompatible: the one is that the unification of sciences will give an evolutionary benefit to human species and the other is that the consilience may incur an evolutionary loss to human species. Even though the consilience overcomes the very logical incoherence, it surely confronts with another fault: the consilience can not make a counterattack the objections based on the other language game than what the consilience is based on. In this respect, the consilience seems to be not an unified science but a science founded on a language game.

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