I have noticed that those who comment on my writings often show two interesting and complementary attitudes: a fund amental distrust of philosophy, coupled with an overly enthusiastic endorsement of science. Since my personal career has been marked by experiences in both fields and by a strong belief that the two enterprises are complementary and not adversarial, I feel it is time to make some ...

Abstract In this article, I argue that there is philosophy of science since existed. Thus, the idea was born with neopositivism historically wrong and detrimental to development itself. Neopositivism tried found as an anti-philosophical discipline, a field study came replace simple philosophy. The attempt maintained for thirty years, but failed. Now, does not mean we cannot make good today, has...

The fundamental questions to be addressed are these: What is the impact of "postmodernism" on the relationship between philosophy and science? What are the possible consequences of the postmodernist whirlwind on the status of philosophy in contemporary culture? And, does postmodernism add new questions to the gnawing issue over the degree, if any, to which a philosopher is a scientist? It would...

the term paradigm has become a central issue in philosophy of science. increasing attention to paradigm in public administration, as a branch of social science, is also highlighted. this paper attempts to analysis seven paradigms in public administration research and to study ontological, epistemological, methodological, rhetorical and axiological assumptions of the each paradigm. finally, we b...

Philosophy of science has a complicated – almost schizophrenic – relationship with metaphysics. Studying topics such as the nature of causation, laws of nature, and spacetime, it clearly engages in activities that deserve to be classified as metaphysics. Yet the academic discipline itself was born in opposition to the field. Carnap, Reichenbach, Feigl, Neurath, and Popper, for example, were uni...