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Patrick Reany wrote:

Science is either just another belief system or it is not. If it is
just another belief system, what is it in detail? And how does it
compare to other belief systems?


Robert Kolker replied:
It is a belief system plus a constraint.


I dare say that is a constraint
The difference between a belief system and science is that science is
obvious, evident to everybody

Nowadays the "theory of knowledge" is something that SCIENTISTS do. See
neuroscience, physics, cognitive science and so on.

So, I said that epistemology is a scientific matter. Epistemology(as a
theory of knowledge) is part of science, like physics, neuroscience,
biology, chemistry and so on.

When we try to know "how" we know, that is epistemology, theory of
knowledge.

The ONLY important theory of knowledge is science. And professional
philosophers tried(see Popper and so on) to study what science is.

So, they called that sort of study "philosophy of science". That mean an
analysis on what science is.

If they use psychology and sociology in that analysis, that is science too.
A scientific analysis. If they talk without using psychology and sociology,
that is not a scientifical analysis but only opinions.

Science is the "best" knowledge that we have.

Even politics or morality depend from what people want

We can study people behaviour using psychology, sociology(science.

I really do not understand where is a place for philosophy nowadays.

I'm afraid that what we call "philosophy" is the same activity that nowadays
SCIENTISTS do!!

I've read some professional philosopher, (Ricoeur, Jaspers and so on). They
used to say that philosophy without science is dead.

That is because we can use science and love knowledge by studying science)

Philosophy= loving knowledge, nowadays is "loving science".

Bye Bob,
Franco