The Disunity-Unity Dimension

Comments on the article by Driver-Linn (see record 2003-05602-002), which presented an account of why psychologists have almost continuously invoked Kuhn since the 1970s to justify a wide array of the discipline's historical developments and epistemological proclivities. The current author advances his own philosophy of science which states as a fundamental principle that all sciences begin in disunity and only advance toward unification by dint of hard and lengthy scientific achievement. The philosophy of science field has focused on the character of the unified sciences as the model of science. It has not systematically treated how those sciences were in their early disunified state, the possibility that all sciences begin in that state, or how a science comes to be unified. A science in the early stage of disunity does not have the full power of science, and it is not considered to be a full science. That power and that recognition await the beginning of the science's advancement to unification. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)