>The problem here, Bill, is that there are no distinct compartments
>labelled "science" and "philosophy".
I didn't mean to suggest that. Rather, I would argue that you can't teach
a discipline without teaching the philosophy that goes with it. The
philosophy of a discipline causes practitioners to approach problems in
certain ways. If the philosophical presuppositions aren't taught, the
rationale those approaches -- why and when they are selected -- will not be
very accessible to the students, They will be flying blind -- making
choices based on a philosophy they don't understand and are laregly unaware
of.
>Rather, philosophy provides the
>foundations on which science is built.
Agreed.
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