The relationship between Western philosophy and science, the difference between philosophy and scien

I think it's the relationship between chickens and eggs. Philosophy is the chicken, science is the egg, and the egg gives birth to the chicken.

Many of the famous philosophers of the Renaissance were also great scientists or naturalists, etc. (you can check the entries of many famous philosophers in the encyclopedia or Wikipedia).

However, due to the expansion of science, it was divided into a separate discipline, and science and philosophy were basically inseparable in the early days. That is, in the early days you could call a scientist a philosopher. But now scientists are scientists.

A philosopher is a philosopher. Scientists are worshipped, but philosophy is misunderstood by many and called flashy by many.

If a man labors only for himself, he may be able to become a famous scholar, a great wise man, a great poet, but he can never become a truly perfect and truly great man. --Watt, the inventor of the steam engine (This sentence can be seen as a sign that scientists (practical philosophers) and theoretical philosophers began to part ways, and it is interesting to note that the invention of the steam engine was a sign of the industrial revolution.

To cite two examples of famous philosophers and scientists, Albert Einstein and Hideki Yukawa.

What is "science" as opposed to "philosophy"?

Broadly speaking, philosophy can be distinguished from four other activities: creative writing, experimental science, formal science, and theology.

No matter how closely a philosopher may be connected to any of these fields, we can say that philosophy is distinctive in the following ways:

Unlike creative writing, philosophy should make assertions that are true or false (in one sense or another).

Philosophy does not rely on experiments in the same way that experimental sciences such as physics and psychology do.

In contrast to the formal sciences (such as logic and mathematics), philosophy must reflect on its own presuppositions (principles) and seek to discuss these presuppositions and demonstrate their legitimacy.

In contrast to theology, philosophy does not have a fixed set of presuppositions that cannot be abandoned for religious reasons (such as dogmas based on revelation), although philosophy always has some kind of presupposition.

The relationship between philosophy and concrete science is that it is related and different. The emergence and development of philosophy is inseparable from various specific sciences, and the progress of concrete sciences promotes the development of philosophy. Philosophy is premised on the ever-increasing enrichment of the knowledge provided by the specific sciences.

1. Philosophy: It is a discipline that studies the basic and universal problems of the world, and is a theoretical system about the worldview.

2. Specific sciences: refers to all sciences other than philosophy. Each specific science studies the world from a certain aspect and a certain field, and grasps a certain objective law.