T V 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Applied Science, Teleology, The Mechanical Universe
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E-reader: science as natural philosophy, science as instrumentality. Two faces of science: natural philosophy = aims at understanding nature, until mid 19th century. Became part of science by the end of 19th: explaining and understanding the world. * more theoretical, pure science: applied science, operational, instrumental science as a form of engineering, applied in all fields. * scientific theories are believed to be true because they work. Instrumentality of science is only applying knowledge provided by natural philosophy. Science is a combination of natural philosophy and instrumentality. * they are not both present in every field. * it"s not two aspects of science sharply distinguished (science is like a visual illusion can be seen as natural philosophy or instrumentality, not both at the same time) Natural philosophy and intelligibility: natural philosophy was seen as completely separate from practical knowledge, based on aristotle"s distinction between science and art. Science = logically and empirically demonstrable knowledge of truth.
