Scientific philosophy (metaphilosophy)

Charles Sanders Peirce argued for a scientific metaphysics and philosophy.

Scientific philosophy is the metaphilosophical view that all philosophy must be a discipline developed in continuity with science and developed as clearly as possible, even if necessary, sometimes also making use of formal tools (logical-mathematical). It is a way of philosophizing in which systematic philosophical theories (hypothetical-deductive systems) are developed on problems of various kinds, natural, social, etc. and in a very general range of problematization (of philosophical domain) in an exact way and with the help of the sciences available at the time, always being a revisable and criticizable project at all times.

The expression 'scientific philosophy' ("wissenschaftliche Philosophie") was first used by Hermann von Helmholtz in the mid-19th century (in 1855) in a lecture he gave in Königsberg.[1] Its use was systematized with the philosophical and scientific work of the statistical physicist Ludwig Boltzmann at the end of the same century.[2]

References

  1. ^ Helmholtz, Hermann von (1855). Ueber das sehen des menschen. europeanlibraries (in German). Leipzig, L. Voss.
  2. ^ Boltzmann, Ludwig (1974). McGuinness, Brian (ed.). Theoretical Physics and Philosophical Problems. Vienna Circle Collection. Vol. 5. doi:10.1007/978-94-010-2091-6. ISBN 978-94-010-2091-6.
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