In 1963, Arthur Staats published his first treatise on what would be a lifelong mission to develop a unified theory of psychology. His approach was to first argue that the various factions of ...

When everyone in academe agrees on something, you’ve got to be worried. The university is a famously noisy kennel, and if you propose X, you’ll always hear barks from those watchdogs who strongly ...

Synthese, Vol. 196, No. 8, Special Issue on Evidence Amalgamation in the Sciences (August 2019), pp. 3263-3278 (16 pages) This paper considers the importance of unification in the context of ...

When molecular biologist Francis Crick tripped on the psychedelic drug LSD in 1953, his mind famously pulled together all of his previous research on human DNA to conceive of the image of a double ...

The search for quantum gravity has gone on for 100 years, but it is not the only unification challenge in physics. Many of us believe that one day there will be a unification theory—a theory that will ...

In a bold step toward solving one of science’s most puzzling problems, researchers have proposed a new way to bring gravity into the same mathematical language as the other forces of nature. While the ...