A common link between Philosophy and Science is LOGIC, which is a branch of Mathematics.
A common link between Philosophy and Science is LOGIC, which is a branch of Mathematics.
Yes, Logic is common to Philosophy and Science. Philosophical thinking leads to scientific thinking.
History maps the link between, development of, and maturity of Philosophy and Science.
These three --- re-enforcing each other!
Dear Sufia,
It would be more difficult if you wanted to know how to put them apart.
One has to understand the history of the scientific studies. A philosophical approach will question what is put to the scientific world and science will stick to steady methods of observation for proving what history brings and philosophy has launched earlier.
Dear @Sulfia, Placing the History and Philosophy of Science on the Curriculum:A Model for the Development of Pedagogy is fine article regarding the issue! Very good thread about science and philosophy is attached. It treats history also! There is no phylosophy without science! /see @Carlos response/
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Is_science_a_part_of_or_separate_from_philosophy
A simple exemple is the bloodletting treatment, that people used to treat some illness, and there are science, history and there is a philosophy behind of this treatment.
Science, philosophy and history are all belief systems. I think my mind opened to the links between each when I read Thomas Kuhn and Carl Popper's works some time ago. More recently, Rupert Sheldrake has shared some very interesting thoughts on our current understanding of science.
History was a trial and error. Philosophy theorized trial and errors and science experimented the philosophy and continue just for the sake of mankind, leaving hazardous foot prints, putting all living beings on an environmental chaos, with out knowing the limits of human habitat.
Logical thinking and its mapping sequentially inter connect the Philosophy, Science, and History.
In chemistry, science, philosophy, and history must be linked together for a good understanding of many subjects. For example, in the topic of the structure of the atom, the teacher or the book will go over the discoveries in a systematic historical order of finding out the electrons first, then the protons, and then the neutrons & where are these components & how the electrons are distributed around the nuclei. The great scientists behind this work are well-understood considering their philosophy of thinking & imagination at their times which produced -despite the few errors- the present state of knowledge.
To link Science, Philosophy and History, one should follow the thesis of "practice of Science and Mathematics". The book by Daniele Macbeth, Realising Reason is exactly such a study. See http://philmat.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2015/01/21/philmat.nku040.short?rss=1
A similar book is: Carlo Cellucci Rethinking Logic: Logic in Relation to Mathematics, Evolution, and Method. Springer.
Science leads to the correct understanding of phenomenons, the correct mapping of knowledge, the correct organization of principles, theorems, axioms etc.. the correct theories of concepts, the correct building blocks of data, expertize, information and tools....
History is the compilation of events on time scheduling basis. History could be reduced or adjusted to the available facts and data
Philosophy is the logical and purposeful way of doing things, creating science and knowledge, engineering the knowledge for more knowledge, making or inventing tools etc... philosophy needs a target purpose for developing useful methods, theories, practices, expertise .. i.e for evolving science for further human progress
Two important facts about philosophizing: (1) that it is a reflective, or meditative, activity and (2) that it has no explicitly designated subject matter of its own but is a method or type of mental operation (like science or history) that can take any area or subject matter or type of experience as its object. Thus, although there are a few single-term divisions of philosophy of long standing—such as logic, ethics, epistemology, or metaphysics—its divisions are probably best expressed by phrases that contain the preposition of—such as philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, philosophy of law, and philosophy of art (aesthetics).
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/1350843/Western-philosophy
I was trying to find the difference between Philosophy and Science. But I am confused. What I find is “Philosophy” is the study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence, especially when considered as an academic discipline. This is from Oxford Dictionaries available in the Internet. The same source suggests that Science means the intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behaviour of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment. Other sources also suggest similar explanations. Possibly the purposes are different. Science has the responsibility to explain all physical happenings in consistent manner. Therefore observation and experiment plays a significant role in Science. Philosophy on the other hand deals with more abstract entities where science is concerned about more concrete objects. For example Scientists investigate the dynamic behaviour of natural phenomena where the Philosophers argue on the very existence of time. So far so good but what I find is the great scientist Einstein also took part in the discussion on the philosophy of time. Possibly both the subjects are concerned with the systematic study of the relevant fields. When this study is more related to the observations and experiments we call it science. Please correct me if I am wrong.
Science, philosophy, and history have always had a link between them in every epoch that all three have existed. All three are historical phenomena, of which science is the most ancient and first bore the name of magic (i.e., knowledge of primitives to master fate or to sway the gods), philosophy arose when myth associated with magic began to lose credence, and history in the form of historiography is a sophisticated social invention and arose third. Science, philosophy, and history have always varied with variations in the other two.
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