what is the place or role of philosophy in science? how are they different>?

Answer 1

The standard way of separating them (though faulty) is to claim that science is empirical and philosophy is not.

This is not the way to separate them because all science is dependent on the conditions of existence thought through in philosophy. All scientists come to a project or experiment with ontological, epistemological, and axiological assumptions (the very realms of philosophy). Some scientists take those things for granted, yet others--like some working in quantuum mechanics--play to them. For example, Is Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle science or philosophy? The line begins to blurr as we look at the conditions of epistemological possibility or impossibility.

Answer 2

I see philosophy as the grandaddy of science so it's more what is the role of science in philosophy. Our perspective of the world in general is reversed so scientific fundamentalism had become our world view since we decided we had to beat the world in technology. We programmed a generation to be 'scientists', because we saw it as in the overwhelming national interest. We have created robots, it seems, with a literal view of everything, while real science is nothing like the popular concepts. It uses imagination, free range of thought, intuition, fantasy, and no assumption about science or anything else, an open mind on every discipline and branch of knowledge. The less asumptions the better. Some
'scientists' stick to outmoded fundamentalist views, while some of the more successful ones you might call progessive scientists. They are only human and have perspectives, feelings, schools of thought and even purposes other than purely scientific ones affecting their 'science'. Even 'proved' science is up for grabs and a new world view is shifting emphasis on what is important to pursue and even what is science. Interdisciplinary approaches are proving to be more important in creativity than over specialization and isolation. We are not actually computers and robots, we are also similar to humans in some way.

Answer 3

I think philosophy has a littel part to play in science, but wihtout philosophy scientists probably wouldu't know the thaughts of past humans.

Answer 4

Philosophies are just thoughts not based on facts whereas science is based on experiments. Philosophers are thinkers whereas scientists are tinkers.