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One of the most striking aspects of scientific progress has been the gradual concrescence of previously distinct theories, methods, disciplines, & cognitive modes. Proponents of the conception that the policy sciences should comprise a rationally structured supradiscipline rightly emphasize the desirability of accelerating this slow process of intellectual unification. However, this enterprise continues to be obstructed by failure to realize that interdisciplinary principles sufficient to generate a legitimate unification of scientific & humane concerns of the policy sciences can issue only from philosophical reconstruction. A normative (value sensitive) mode of general systems analysis adequate to the demands of adaptive social-institutional systems must constitute an epochal modification of the conventional perspective of scientific inquiry. Modern systems research has resulted in an innovation in the conceptual format of science because it has the ability to provide a unifying field for the presently fractured universe of scientific discourse. 2 specific projects for further contemplation & research are recommended: (1) selection of primitive concepts & commitments of a system-theoretic mode of rational inquiry, & (2) institution of an attending set of rational canons for normative systems analysis. 11 Figures. Modified HA.

Section One Phenomenology and Natural Science -- Hermeneutics of Experimental Science in the Context of the Life-World -- Husserl and the Mind-Brain Relation -- Section Two Phenomenology and Social Science -- Ethnomethodology as a Phenomenological Approach in the Social Sciences -- Mind and Institution -- Alfred Schutz Symposium: The Pregivenness of Sociality -- Husserl and His Influence on Me -- Section Three Phenomenology and Marxism -- Consciousness, Praxis, and Reality: Marxism vs. Phenomenology -- Meaning and Freedom in the Marxist Conception of the Economic -- Section Four Phenomenology and Formal Science -- Objectivity in Logic: A Phenomenological Approach -- Notes on Contributors.

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