Question

(Answer correctly)After identifying which method the theory relates better to, use the example of Feyerabend to discuss why you think philosophy and science (and, philosophers and scientists) have theories and ideas that blend into one another. How are these two disciplines related?

Answer 1

Paul Feyerabend studied science and moved to philosophy for his post-doctoral thesis. He later became a critic of the philosophy of science. Paul Feyerabend believes science is the basis of knowledge that it is empirical, and that non-empirical enterprises are either logical or nonsense.

Paul Feyerabend, despite studying physics and astronomy in the university, in his first book, Against Method, argued that philosophy cannot provide a rationale for science, since there is no rationale to explain.

Philosophy is the root discipline dealing with all knowledge. Science is just one type of knowledge, featured by the scientific method. Science deals with empirical truth. In fact, Philosophy is believed to be the science of science. Both science and philosophy contain certain measures of truth. Every major scientific discovery is at the same time a step forward in the development of the philosophical world-view and methodology. Philosophical statements are based on sets of facts studied by the sciences.

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