Reply #6: "The philosophy of science" [View All]

[darkstar3]

I would posit that there is no such thing. The scientific method is based entirely on deductive reasoning. Inductive reasoning does appear from time to time in scientific circles with the formation of Theorems and Laws, but these happen infrequently and are all tested using more deductive reasoning.

Philosophy came before science, and there is no arguing that. Philosophers intent on ordering thoughts and arguments appropriately created the systems of inductive and deductive reasoning. But science is something much more than philosophy, as a practice and as a formal methodology.

You might call philosophy a precursor to science, and specifically to the scientific method, but outside of the deductive method I don't think you can find any more philosophy in science.