what's the difference of pure philosophy and philosophy of science?

Answer 1

No one know where the line devides.

Answer 2

Pure philosophy is the idea that everything in life (the universe) follows a recognizable and predictable pattern. In other words, pure philosophy comes very close to religion, without necessarily believing in god. Plato's idea of the World of Forms is the closest that Western philosophy has come to acknowledging what is NOW known as Intelligent Design. To put it another way, the Pure Philosopher believes that the world ultimately makes sense and that is not just a bunch of random crap.

The Philosophy of Science is the idea that the world runs along vaguely scientific lines. Since the concept of science is itself very loosely defined, this a hard belief to support. To a limited extent, it is true. For instance, you get an apple tree when you plant an apple seed. You ALWAYS get green when you mix blue with yellow. To that point, the Scientific Philosopher can say, "See? I told you so!"

But the Scientific Philosopher cannot really EXPLAIN WHY a bunch of amoebas in the sea, over billions of years, eventually evolved into Britney Spears. They can only go back and trace HOW it happened, but never WHY.

The Pure Philosopher, on the other hand, can explain the WHY but never the HOW.

Answer 3

pure philosophy includes any kind of philisophical specualtion or practice. that includes science and its philosophies, which were invented and developed by, you guessed it, philosophers. there are many many kinds of philiosophy besides scientific ones, including ontology, epistemology, phenomenology, empiricism, rationalism, dialectics, sophism, existentialism, aporetics, rhetoric, ethics, relativism, metaphysics, logic, and taoism, and that doesn't even begin to put a drop in the bucket.
Aristotle was an important philosopher in the history of the philiophy of science. he made the argument that we can understand the world by observing it and organizing our knowledge about it. modern scientific method was developed by Rene Descartes, who proposed that we could make experimental hypotheses and then test them, and understand the results by using objectivity. science and its methods have proved to be one of the most astoundingly productive forms of philosophy developed so far by human beings, but that doesn't necessarily mean that we should throw all the rest out. many have value for many different reasons, and science certainly comes nowhere near to close to ansering all the questions we can ask about the universe.
I suppose you could even have a pure philosophy of science if you wanted to. I'm going to go away now and think about what might be involved in that.

Answer 4

one is less boring than the other.