Abstract

Having a personal testimony of some less known, or completely unknown elements concerning the biographic sphere as starting point, an attempt has been made to reveal in what extent these aspects influence on the definition of the philosophical researcher profile, and in what way do they determine a methodological option, an intellectual attitude, an epistemological thought. Attention is focused on the main problem of the unity of science, critically analysing how this problem is put into equation, his complexity, the issues that derive from it and the building of an alternative view, different from that of the Wiener Kreis, of the logical empiricism: a materialistic epistemology overcoming or surpassing the formalist conception of the unity of science.