The Janus-Faced Nature of Philosophy of Science

Eleven Theses

Bibliographic Data

ID21655356
AuthorsMarco Buzzoni (0000-0002-4729-7169, University of Macerata, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume31
Issue6
Pages743-762
Publication date2021-12-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAxiomathes (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1122-1151 • E-ISSN: 1572-8390
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1007/s10516-021-09587-y
OpenAlexW3205267875
LanguageEN
References cited25

Elsewhere I have tried to provide the justification of both the irreducible (transcendental) distinction of science and philosophy and their inevitable (naturalistic) complementarity. Unlike empirical science, philosophy has no limit whatever as far as its possible objects are concerned. To say that there is no limit whatever to the possible objects of philosophy is to say that, strictly speaking, it has no object at all and must find its object outside itself, that is, in common sense knowledge and the natural and human sciences. Against the background of this conception, the paper argues that philosophy of science, as a critical reflection on common sense knowledge and the natural or human sciences, inherits from philosophy in general this two-faced Janus nature, which in the philosophy of science shapes the epistemological status of the discipline in an even more prominent way. To show this in detail, the paper enunciates eleven theses that derive from the intimate connection of unity and distinction that exists between philosophy of science on the one hand and the particular and specialized scientific knowledge on the other

Critical philosophy · Epistemology · Natural science · Naturalism · Ontology · Philosophy of biology · Philosophy of computer science · Philosophy of science · Transcendental number · Transcendental philosophy · Western philosophy · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics · Philosophy · Philosophy and History of Science · Science and Climate Studies

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