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Single Idea 16943
[filed under theme 1. Philosophy / G. Scientific Philosophy / 3. Scientism
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Full Idea
I see philosophy not as an a priori propaedeutic or groundwork for science, but as continuous with science. I see philosophy and science as in the same boat. …There is no external vantage point, no first philosophy.
Clarification
A 'propaedeutic' is a preparation
Gist of Idea
Philosophy is continuous with science, and has no external vantage point
Source
Willard Quine (Natural Kinds [1969], p.126)
Book Ref
Quine,Willard: 'Ontological Relativity and Other Essays' [Columbia 1969], p.126
A Reaction
Philosophy is generalisation. Science holds the upper hand, because it settles the subject-matter to be generalised.
Related Idea
Idea 22153
Quine rejects Carnap's view that science and philosophy are distinct [Quine, by Boulter]
The
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with the same theme
[science is the way to solve philosophical problems]:
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My Meditations are the complete foundation of my physics
[Descartes]
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8935
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Without philosophy, science is barren and futile
[Hegel]
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12114
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Science can drown in detail, so we need broad scientists (to keep out the metaphysicians)
[Comte]
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12116
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Only positivist philosophy can terminate modern social crises
[Comte]
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14764
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I am saturated with the spirit of physical science
[Peirce]
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14782
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Philosophy is an experimental science, resting on common experience
[Peirce]
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20143
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Scientific knowledge is nothing without a prior philosophical 'faith'
[Nietzsche]
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14859
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If philosophy controls science, then it has to determine its scope, and its value
[Nietzsche]
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6117
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Philosophy should be built on science, to reduce error
[Russell]
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8378
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Philosophers usually learn science from each other, not from science
[Russell]
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5434
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Philosophy is similar to science, and has no special source of wisdom
[Russell]
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7081
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Philosophy is not separate from or above empirical science
[Neurath]
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23508
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Science is all the true propositions
[Wittgenstein]
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5179
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Philosophy deals with the questions that scientists do not wish to handle
[Ayer]
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Philosophy is continuous with science, and has no external vantage point
[Quine]
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6267
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A culture needs to admit that knowledge is more extensive than just 'science'
[Putnam]
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6272
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'True' and 'refers' cannot be made scientically precise, but are fundamental to science
[Putnam]
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1489
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Modern philosophy tends to be a theory-constructing extension of science, but there is also problem-solving
[Nagel]
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13407
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All worthwhile philosophy is synthetic theorizing, evaluated by experience
[Papineau]
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7068
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If infatuation with science leads to bad scientism, its rejection leads to obscurantism
[Critchley]
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20449
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Science gives us an excessively theoretical view of life
[Critchley]
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6844
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Scientism is the view that everything can be explained causally through scientific method
[Critchley]
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6123
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Empirical investigation can't discover if holes exist, or if two things share a colour
[Merricks]
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19675
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Since Kant, philosophers have claimed to understand science better than scientists do
[Meillassoux]
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11054
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Scientism says most knowledge comes from the exact sciences
[Hanna]
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14897
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We should abandon intuitions, especially that the world is made of little things, and made of something
[Ladyman/Ross]
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14905
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The supremacy of science rests on its iterated error filters
[Ladyman/Ross]
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14936
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A metaphysics based on quantum gravity could result in almost anything
[Ladyman/Ross]
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14001
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People who use science to make philosophical points don't realise how philosophical science is
[Markosian]
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Scientists know everything about nothing, philosophers nothing about everything
[Sagan,D]
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