This paper shows that William Stanley Jevons was not precursor of logical positivism despite his attempt to build up a unified science. His mechanical reductionism was directed towards this project, and Jevons tried to found mathematics on logic through the development of a theory of number. We show that his attempts are unsuccessful, and that his errors remain visible within the totality of hi...

In summer 1923, a year after his lectures on the ‘New Foundation of Mathematics’ and half a year before the republication of his two notes on the ‘Foundations of Physics,’ Hilbert delivered a trilogy of lectures in Hamburg. In these lectures, Hilbert expounds in an unusually explicit manner his epistemological perspective on science as a subdiscipline of an all embracing science of mathematics....

The notion that science is unified in one way or another dates back at least to Aristotle, though unity claims since then have been diverse and variously motivated. By way of introduction to the modern discussion of unity, disunity, and integration, in this first section we examine five historical attempts to unify knowledge: Aristotle’s metaphysical and hierarchical unity; the Enlightenment pr...

a unified and coherent new field he called Software Science, in which attributes of a computer program, such as implementation efforts, clarity, structure, error rates, language levels, etc., can be derived from its basic metrics through quantitative hypotheses. This special collection of papers on Software Science not only contains some of Maury's final contributions to the field he started, b...

The understanding of nature and nurture within developmental science has evolved with alternating ascendance of one or the other as primary explanations for individual differences in life course trajectories of success or failure. A dialectical perspective emphasizing the interconnectedness of individual and context is suggested to interpret the evolution of developmental science in similar ter...

My work lies at the intersection of control theory and theoretical computer science. As the field of robotics blossoms into a vibrant research area, the need for a unified set of algorithmic underpinnings is becoming increasingly apparent. My hope is that my strong computer science experience filtered through my graduate school shift into control theory ideally prepares me for such a position. ...

We provide a solution for elementary science tests using instructional materials. We posit that there is a hidden structure that explains the correctness of an answer given the question and instructional materials and present a unified max-margin framework that learns to find these hidden structures (given a corpus of questionanswer pairs and instructional materials), and uses what it learns to...

Enterprise architecture enables strategic alignment through creation of a unified business and IS view of the target state of the business. Using a design science approach, this paper proposes an intent-based technique as an extension to existing modeling techniques for strategic alignment. The proposed approach defines a reference architecture of enterprise intent that includes vocabulary, rul...