What's the link between science and philosophy?????

Question

diferences between cientific criteria and philosophy criteria

Answer 1

Science is the answer that must be questioned.
Philosophy is the question that may never be answered.

Answer 2

The link is in the past.

For most of history, science and philosophy were the same. In the ancient times, there were three schools of knowledge that all Greeks and Romans learned: Rhetoric, Literature, and Philosophy. Rhetoric included oratation, debating, and all-around people skills. Literature included poetry, written literature, and history.

Philosophy was the school of knowledge that covered reality. What it was, how it worked, etc. Scientific evidence for things such as the Big bang and evolution did not make themselves readily apparent, so there was considerable overlap between philosophy, science, and religion. Philosophy was divided into two schools: the moral philosophy (which would later become Ethics) and the natural philosophy (which would later become Metaphysics.) The philosophers of antiquity did not just sit around asking all those big questions that philosophers are famous for (like "does God exist" or "is reality subjective"?), they were mathematicians, scientists, professors, any profession that has to do with what reality is like.

For example, in addition to his works on metaphysics, ethics, and logic, Aristotle also conducted a number of scientific experiments, and while most of his science has been disproven (for example; he felt that objects fell in proportion to their weight, and that the brain was an organ that cools the blood), it was through application of his own methods that they were able to be disproven in the first place!

As time went on in Western Civilization, specialization in specific areas of philosophy began sprouting up, particularly with the start of the industrial revolution. It was only in the 19th century that the term "science" became distinguished from the term "natural philosophy".

al knowledge that pertains to the world (e.i, that wouldn't fall under the category of literature or rhetoric) is still thought of as philosophy, we only do not recognize it on a layman level. For example, the term Ph.D stands for Doctor of Philosophy, which you can earn in a wide variety of fields.

Answer 3

They are or were essentially the same thing. When Shakespeare wrote "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy" he was speaking of science when he said philosophy. This is because there came a time in the scientific community when it was thought that all reasonable experimentation had been done and redone, but not all data which had been gathered from it had been thoroughly thought upon in order to understand it and how it correlated to everything else. Therefore it was reasoned that further experimentation should be halted in favour of understanding what those experiments had brought forth. This became known as the age of philosophy.

While philosophy seems to have separated itself more so from actual science in recent years (being now more of a spiritual nature), its roots lay in science.

Answer 4

Philosophy is supposed to be the love of knowledge, and doing science is supposed to be the more or less practical engagement with experimental activities in some field of knowing. Both philosophy and science are divided into different branches for work convenience, thus we may have the philosophy of science, and that would be epistemology, then the philosophy of medicine, of religion, of ... politics, and further. Science is also divided for convenience into several fields, thus we may have political science, computer science, ... whatever.

Even more simply said, science is about seeing knowledge while philosophy is about loving knowledge.

Answer 5

Science is that part of philosophy that tries to get at the truth and at the essence of things by using the scientific method.
That's why the highest scientific degree is PhD. = Doctor of Philosophy.

Answer 6

Where Science ends, Philosophy begins. Science is the knowledge of causality, which is assimilative knowledge, Where assimilation ends, there begins Philosophy.

Answer 7

not sure if this is the type of answer you're looking for, but i'd say the link between them is that while science seeks to understand how the world works, philosophy seeks to understand our part in that process. they're really more complimentary than people care to admit, i think.

Answer 8

Science deals with facts, philosophy deals with intangibles.