How is a philosophy of science possible?

22 Sep, 2021 at 11:00 | Posted in Theory of Science & Methodology | 1 Comment

Amazon.in: Buy Possibility of Naturalism: v. 1: Philosophical Critique of the Contemporary Human Sciences Book Online at Low Prices in India | Possibility of Naturalism: v. 1: Philosophical Critique of the ContemporaryWhat is the relation between science and philosophy? Do they compete with one another or speak of different worlds? Neither position is acceptable …

Philosophy is distinguished by the kinds of considerations and arguments it employs. It does not consider a world apart from that of the various sciences. Rather it considers just that world, but from the standpoint of what can be established about it by a priori argument …

Philosophy, like science, produces knowledge. But it is knowledge of the necessary conditions for the production of knowledge — second-order knowledge, if you like. If philosophy is, as I believe it can be, a conceptual science, then like any science it ought to be able to tell us something we did not already know: it ought to be able to surprise us. For, as Marx astutely observed, ‘all science would be superfluous if the outward appearances and essences of things directly coincided.’

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  1. 》If philosophy is, as I believe it can be, a conceptual science, then like any science it ought to be able to tell us something we did not already know: it ought to be able to surprise us.
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    Isn’t Gödel’s Incompleteness theorem surprising, because it uses pure philosophy to prove science cannot reach all truths?

    Comment by rsm— 23 Sep, 2021 #


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