Emilie Santmyer: Philosophy is not a science but a road map that no science can do without.
Rosio Pasculli: That's two questions:1. Philosophy as science would mean the death of philosophy, since this would require it's transformation into what it is not. Not all great thinking must be scientific thinking.2. Now, to it's importance to science: all debates about what is proof, demonstration, validation, falsation and similar concepts that refer to the nature of scientific thought and it's aims, have been philosophical debates. Logical reasoning might be "natural" in scientists, but its rules where defined by philosophers....Show more
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