How is Philosophy related to science?

Answer 1

Science is a subset of philosophy.

The easiest way to describe science is as whatever is produced by using the scientific method. This is a process founded principally upon objective measurement. Something is objective if it doesn't matter who does it, where, or when, as long as the correct steps are followed in the production and observation of the phenomenon. And this requirement of being objective is actually a pretty strict one.

One example of such is that it usually requires some kind of constant, external reference point. You can't just say, "Does it take a long time for the bus to arrive?" - different people have completely different ideas of what a long time is. Instead, you use some kind a timepiece so that anyone who measures with a correct timepiece will get the same answer.

Requiring measurement against objective references is essentially what differentiates science from some other forms of philosophy. There is no yardstick by which we can measure 'ethics' or 'divinity' or the 'best way to live'. If we ever develop one, those fields will probably just be tucked into science. This is actually a good proof that all sciences are philosophies - if you go back far enough, you can find times when any of them lacked the proper tools to be objective, and each was universally considered to be a part of philosophy at that time. Many institutions STILL refer to science as 'natural philosophy'.

Both science and philosophy have another characteristic that can differentiate them from other pursuits: they try to be useful and add to or correct the total of human knowledge. Thus new philosophies tend to replace - or at least elaborate on - the old. Argument and peer review are considered essential in both, and even philosophers tend to consider ideas which cannot possibly ever be falsified as belonging more to the realm of fiction writers than actual philosophy.

Art (as an example of a non-philosophical study) may attempt to outshine other art, but each piece is still valid in its own way. You cannot refute the Mona Lisa - that's a non-sequitur. Nor can there ever be a 'perfect' cake. Different people like different things and different formulations serve different purposes. This kind of view is unacceptable for science and it is unacceptable for philosophy.

Answer 2

Philosophy, today, is concerned with questions that no longer fall into the realm of science: questions of ethics, or how to live one's life; questions of metaphysics, or what actually exists and the nature of existing things; questions about knowledge, or epistemology; and the principles of reasoning, or logic.

In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the study of natural science gradually separated from the realm of philosophy, when science became increasingly involved with empirical investigation and with experimentation, giving rise to disciplines such as physics and chemistry.

To learn more, look up "the history of science."

Answer 3

Science is a branch of philosophy in that it is a methodical epistemology that utilizes both rationalism and empiricism to formulate quantized data that is used to describe the phenomena experienced by the human condition. It is well established as a systematic epistemology that is both highly effective in terms of description so much so that predictive use can be drawn from it, and it is effective in that practical application in the form of technology and education can be drawn from its use. The ties are that science is the most effective heuristically derived methodological epistemology in history. While there maybe other methods that are more esoteric or intuitive in nature, none have thus far improved upon the quality of knowledge or of the condition of human existence and experience.

Answer 4

Although most religions and spiritual beliefs are clearly
distinct from science on both a philosophical and
methodological level, the two are not generally considered
to be mutually exclusive. A majority of humans hold a mix of
both scientific and religious views. The distinction between
philosophy and religion, on the other hand, is at times less
clear.

Answer 5

Science involved 2 basic fields, theory and obsverastion throught experimention. Forgettting the experimention side of things for a moment... Theory is a thought that is yet to be proven or disproven throught experimention. So a theory is basic a philioscaphial thought. Back in the days of the geeks early philiophiers thought about how the univerise was build and how things there made, they came up with ideas and theorys thought philoscoicial thought. It wasn't until scientific experimention that these thought either become either scientific fact or that they were disproved.

Answer 6

Philosophy is the science of the mind.

Answer 7

Philosophy is a bunch of guys guessing, and science is a bunch of guys guessing.

I hope this helps.

Answer 8

it is give a vision of it or to limited it power
(problems: ethics,believing...)