There's a category titled Philosophy of Science. Nice category and then I switched it around in my mind to Science of Philosophy and asked myself is there any science to philosophy? Maybe/maybe not. But why stop there? Often science and art have been explored with each other and in contradiction against each other. This leads to how one should handle philosophy: as an art or as a science or maybe both?
What do you know and what do you favor here? What's the best approach?
PhilX
Science or art?
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randallbenak
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Re: Science or art?
Philosophy of science is a branch of philosophy concerned with the foundations, methods, and implications of science. The central questions concern what counts as science, the reliability of scientific theories, and the purpose of science.
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The Voice of Time
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Re: Science or art?
Neither.
Philosophy is the foundation that creates both. Without philosophy art would've been a mess of uninterpretable lines, curves, colours, sounds etc.
Science is defined by philosophy.
While there has been talk of a Science of Philosophy, that's used to mean something else than what you think. The "Science of Philosophy" simply means "knowledge that has a philosophical nature, is made by philosophy"... such as ethics, aesthetics and so forth. "Science" originally means "knowledge".
Philosophy is the foundation that creates both. Without philosophy art would've been a mess of uninterpretable lines, curves, colours, sounds etc.
Science is defined by philosophy.
While there has been talk of a Science of Philosophy, that's used to mean something else than what you think. The "Science of Philosophy" simply means "knowledge that has a philosophical nature, is made by philosophy"... such as ethics, aesthetics and so forth. "Science" originally means "knowledge".