TY - BOOK ID - 85769609 TI - Scientific Knowledge and Philosophic Thought PY - 2019 SN - 1421434768 1421434784 1421434776 PB - Johns Hopkins University Press DB - UniCat KW - Wissenschaft. KW - Philosophie. KW - Wetenschap. KW - Denkwijze. KW - Probleemoplossing. KW - Kennistheorie. KW - Wissenschaft KW - Philosophie KW - Erkenntnistheorie KW - Science KW - Problem solving. KW - Knowledge, Theory of. KW - Knowledge. KW - Philosophy. KW - Methodology. KW - methods. KW - Scientific knowledge - Philosophical perspectives KW - Methodology KW - Psychology KW - Decision making KW - Executive functions (Neuropsychology) KW - Natural science KW - Natural sciences KW - Science of science KW - Sciences KW - Epistemology KW - Theory of knowledge KW - Philosophy KW - Scientific method KW - Logic, Symbolic and mathematical KW - Normal science KW - Philosophy of science UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85769609 AB - Are there two kinds of problems - the scientific and the philosophic - each requiring different methods for solution? Or are there, rather, two different ways of approaching a problem, each yielding a different answer according to the method used? Biomedical researcher Sir Harold Himsworth urges scientists not to shy away from using scientific methods to grapple with problems traditionally accepted as belonging to the province of philosophy. The difference between science and philosophy lies not in the problems to which they are directed, Himsworth argues, but rather in the methods they use for solving them. To the scientist, a proposition is something to be investigated; to the philosopher, something to be accepted as a basis for thought. Since the development of the scientific method, substantial progress has been made toward mastering problems in the natural environment. If we are ever to attain a degree of control over problems that derive from human activities, Himsworth claims that we only succeed by approaching them in a comparably objective way. ER -