(March 20, 2018 at 12:33 pm)Brian37 Wrote:(March 20, 2018 at 12:27 pm)polymath257 Wrote: Not completely true. For example, ethics is a subject that is still primarily philosophical. And it is a useful and important subject.
In what context? As far as social interaction outside a lab sure, but as far as finding answers to scientific fact, observation, data collecting, control groups and peer review are still the top tool.
Psychology, psychiatry and neurology are the best way to study how humans behave.
That may describe how people react in practice, but doens't address the questions of how they 'should' react. It can address the questions of what people 'believe' to be ethical, but there is a still the question of whether ethics is independent of such beliefs.
