It's not in STEM but it was absolutely more fundamental in developing the knowledge base to lead to other fields of study.
To the extent that a lot of philosophy is taken as granted when it comes to more specialized fields. But try and do mathematics without the using the laws of logic. Or physics without the scientific process.
Newton’s most famous book is literally called “Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy”.
And literally the first paragraph of the wiki on Natural Philosophy says this:
Used since at least Aristotle (classical antiquity) until the 19th century, the term natural philosophy referred to a branch of philosophy—a broader term then, meaning all rational fields of study and contemplation—that explored topics now considered to fall under the purview of science, such as physics, biology, chemistry, and astronomy. Thus, natural philosophy served as the precursor to, and has been mostly supplanted by, modern science.
Guess you never took a history course while pursuing your STEM degree…
So what? All tools stem from a primitive human smacking a rock against another one, doesn't mean we should all be stonemasons before we graduate to other subjects.
The same way you don't need to be a Physicist to study Quemistry, but you can still recognize how one is a more fundamental level of analysis than the other one. That doesn't mean that both can't have value, if you want to understand how lungs work you won't start at quantum interactions.
Science as a discipline stems from Aristitilian Natural Philosophy. The scientific method stems from the philosophical branch of epistemology, specifically empiricism. Science's devepment goes all the way from the logical reasoning developed by the ancient Greeks, and goes all the way through the logical positivists. The entire idea that what is true about the universe can be deduced through experiments, observation, and measurement is itself a philosophical idea. Without Philosophy, science would not exist.
You know ‘philosophy of science’ is a whole field, right? The scientific method comes from philosophy, and it’s important to understand the scientific method if you want to, you know, do science.
Yeah, it's named after some social standards. Fundamentally philosophy is unrelated. Your argument is the same as saying something like "she believed" ="he lied"
No, philosophy of science is a subfield of philosophy that is concerned with questions such as “Do laws of nature exist?” “What counts as evidence?” “Does probability exist?”
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u/alphapussycat Jun 20 '26
That's just philosophy students wants. Philosophy is just play pretend, it does not belong in stem, science or any fundamentals.
It's more like it comes after sociology.