2007-07-06 15:30:52 · 6 answers · asked by doggie love 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
yes. there are even philosophers of science but the distinction, in brief, is that philosphers try to go into deeper matters that the scientists don't normally have time for.
2007-07-06 15:35:59 · answer #1 · answered by kevinhoegle 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
If by gray area you mean does the line between the two sometimes get all fuzzy?? Well then, of course ... they are two essentially different approaches to man's attempt to explain why things are what they are and how they came to be that way, as well as how they should have become that way!! However they are not oppositional in nature, rather they are complimentary as one often picks up where the other leaves off. It can often be very hard to tell the difference, yet it can be seen: consider the scientific method versus the applied science of logic..... so different and yet so the same!! That is your grey area.
2007-07-06 22:54:54 · answer #2 · answered by naniannie 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes there is(but some of us believe there shouldn't be).
And it has not been better discussed,in my opinion,by the
(arch)critical so-called philosopher Sir karl Popper.
He has even been to American Universities(see his books
about that)and lectured about the influence and the need to
better criticize the leading scientific theory that is STILL
sweeping our world; he was talking of Darwinism,of
course,and all its so-called versions(modern versions!).
2007-07-06 22:44:10 · answer #3 · answered by peter m 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I dont think there is. In philosophy it is the matter of thought and it science it is the matter of facts and tubes and stuff.
2007-07-06 22:36:22 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
modern physics is awfully like philosophy.
2007-07-06 22:33:25 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Alchemy seems to come to mind...
2007-07-06 22:35:59 · answer #6 · answered by Paul 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋