[DM] Philosophy is one word, another is critical thinking. This seems to me key and goes further than science. Science stays focused on experience and experiments. But to do science or anything else we nee language and concepts. Philosophy and critical thinking get us to think about language and concepts, challenging them, checking out our understanding of them, asking if we need new concepts and new languages and suiggesting what these might be. Science started as natural philosophy and got going once the right concepts and approaches were available. It works well now, but we cannot assume that its current concepts are complete and fully adequate. It has many tricky problems, these may be overcome by experiments and experience, or they may need new concepts. This is why Einstein thought experiements are as much philosophy as science as they challenge and change our concepts.
[Krimel] Fair enough for the most part but science relies on and produces critical thinking. Philosophy has no claim on a monopoly or even superiority in that regard. No one in science assumes that "...its current concepts are complete and fully adequate." Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
