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Originally Posted by charles brough
Michaelangelica, it seems to me social scientists are not philosophers. Social scientists, to me, are real scientists, ones who collect historical, archeological, anthropological and other data. It is the social theorists who interpret it and they rationalize.
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Originally Posted by Michaelangelica
Are social scientists becoming philosophers-rather than scientists- do you think?
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Why are we trying to separate philosophy and science here?
The sciences began with philosophical inquiry. Scientific findings would be essentially useless if separated from philosophical or theoretical interpretation.
