Among the most promising options for vindicating Oppenheim and Putnam’s unity of science hypothesis is the ‘Mentaculus’ of Albert and Loewer. I assess whether this promise can be borne out. My focus is on whether the Mentaculus can deliver what Oppenheim and Putnam call the ‘unity of laws’: the reduction of special science laws to the laws of fundamental physics. I conclude that although the Mentaculus may support a fairly strong form of reductionism, it falls short of upholding the unity of laws.

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科学与心智的统一

证明奥本海姆和普特南科学统一假说的最有希望的选择是阿尔伯特和洛厄尔的“Mentaculus”。我评估这个承诺是否能够兑现。我的重点是门塔库勒斯是否能够实现奥本海姆和普特南所说的“定律的统一”：将特殊科学定律还原为基础物理定律。我的结论是，尽管曼塔库鲁斯可能支持相当强的还原论形式，但它不足以维护法律的统一性。