Abstract
Philip Kitcher has advanced an account of scientific progress1 in which explanatory unification2 plays a central role. According to that account, one of the two basic ways science progresses is explanatorily, where explanatory progress is a matter of increasing unifying power. A natural worry about this sort of view is that too enthusiastically seeking unification will lead us to impose artificial structure on the world, thus yielding an incorrect view of the world and its goings on. Kitcher has addressed this worry under the heading obsessive unifier? In this paper, I argue that his response to the obsessive unifier worry is unsatisfactory. I further suggest a remedy to the obsessive unifier worry, but one that Kitcher is not likely to endorse.
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