hey! who put philosophy in my science !!??

Question

when i think of Philosophy, I think of "conjecture" When I think of Science, I think of the "Emperical" . I grudgingly admit this isnt nessesarily the case, but I draw the line at Schrodinger's Cat, dammit!! :-)

Answer 1

Nobody put it in, it was there from the beginning. Science grew out of philosophy.

These days, and always, there are at least the following philosophical questions about science:

1. What are the aims of science?
2. What does science try to avoid?
3. What method or methods should science use to further those aims and avoid those negatives?

Some answers to these questions are:

1. To describe, explain, and predict the behavior of the world.
2. Inaccurate description, untrue explanation, unsuccessful prediction.
3. Either:
(a) Observation and inductive reasoning (including analogy), or
(b) hypothesis, deduction, and falsification (trying to show a hypothesis is false rather than trying to show it is true), or
(c) no method (which in practice means any method - whatever works).

Answer 2

Hey somebody put science in my philosophy!!!??? Thinks great less filling!!!

Answer 3

where's your sense of adventure?