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Arranging the Sciences: I. An Experiment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2022

William Marias Malisoff
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One of the most thankless tasks in the field of the philosophy of science is the arranging of the sciences. If philosophy is to fulfill the partial rôle of being the “science of the sciences” it is sure to return to this undertaking time and time again. Sometimes it will refer to the enterprise as “the classification of the sciences,” sometimes as the formulation of “the system of the sciences,” and occasionally in the grand manner as a description of the “order of Nature.” I prefer to speak of “arranging” the sciences.

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Research Article
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Philosophy of Science , Volume 4 , Issue 2 , April 1937 , pp. 261 - 264
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Copyright © Philosophy of Science Association 1937

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1 No more than this emerges from even so laborious an analysis as given by Carl Stumpf, “Zur Einteilung der Wissenschaften,” K. Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin, 1906, V, 1-93.

2 See the interesting article of H. E. Bliss, Philosophy of Science Vol. 2, 86-103 (1935), who is interested in library organization. That, however, must take care of many minutiae, authors’ errors and painstaking cross-indexing. Discovery can actually be hampered by such “accidents.”