(June 5, 2012 at 8:37 am)whateverist Wrote:(June 4, 2012 at 9:57 am)Chuck Wrote: Science is a very particular subset of philosophy that has been both uniquely and extraordinarily successful. But other parts of philosophy will continue to exist so long as men feel the need to overreach his own knowledge and teach what he does not know at the expense of his fellow men.
But unless philosophy continues where will the next branch of science come from? Philosophy is how we find our way into new questions. Interestingly some questions resist settling out into science.
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Science is philosphy. Next branch of science will flow from the present state of science. But it may receive some initial proximal encouragement from other field of philosphy, or it may not.
Science certainly rest on philosphyical foundations which would not appear to causal detesters of philosophy to be philosphy. They just take these to be evidently true, as if that view is not itself philosophical.
Every question settled by science can be said to have resisted settling by science. Science by its nature does not declare problem solved by fiat, perhaps unlike some other versions of philosphy. So do not confuse painstaking care and rigorous honesty with lack of productivity.
