{"title":"How to Unify All Schools of Thought in Social Science and Humanities into One Scientific School of Thought","authors":"James J. Wayne","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3705664","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"There are hundreds and thousands of schools of thought in social science and humanities, while there is only one school of thought in natural science. This paper investigates the question how to unify all schools of thought in social science and humanities into one scientific school of thought by transforming social science and humanities into subfields of physics. By being parts of physics, the scientific version of social science and humanities should allow only one school of thought logically and naturally. This paper will discuss what this scientific version of social science and humanities will look like and how it can be uniquely defined in terms of physics of human society, mathematics, methodology, history, facts, forecasting models, equilibrium values systems, and equilibrium solutions to normative problems. This paper should be useful for reconciling the current extremely polarized policy debates between the left and right around the world.","PeriodicalId":174014,"journal":{"name":"PRN: Decision Theory (Topic)","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2020-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"PRN: Decision Theory (Topic)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3705664","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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There are hundreds and thousands of schools of thought in social science and humanities, while there is only one school of thought in natural science. This paper investigates the question how to unify all schools of thought in social science and humanities into one scientific school of thought by transforming social science and humanities into subfields of physics. By being parts of physics, the scientific version of social science and humanities should allow only one school of thought logically and naturally. This paper will discuss what this scientific version of social science and humanities will look like and how it can be uniquely defined in terms of physics of human society, mathematics, methodology, history, facts, forecasting models, equilibrium values systems, and equilibrium solutions to normative problems. This paper should be useful for reconciling the current extremely polarized policy debates between the left and right around the world.