Proceedings of the Law & Political Science Conference, Vienna

THE UNIFICATION OF THE PHILOSOPHICAL AND BEHAVIORAL SOCIAL SCIENCES

GEORGE MCMILLAN III

Abstract:

This research design overcomes the three problems of coordinating the micro and macro behavioral sciences of Gintis defined as: (1) the identification of an overarching casual theme, (2) the identification of an integrative methodology, and (3) the identification of a series of a series of compatible frameworks. This is achieved by the comparison of the competing Hume-Smith versus Marx-Engels foundational-political-economic philosophical theories in relation to the outcome of the 20th Century Ideological Experiments. This paper contends that the range of valid foundational-political-economic philosophical theories, and the corresponding series of psychological, political, economic theoretical frameworks in the social sciences, can be reduced considerably across the board considerably, and then integrated laterally.

Keywords: Unification of the behavioral sciences; Unified Theory of the Social Sciences

DOI: 10.20472/LPC.2017.001.005

PDF: Download