Abstract
A philosopher friend of mine once described the relationship between philosophy and science this way: Philosophy, he maintained, is a holding tank (he said garbage can, actually) for particularly sticky problems. Science may want to know about the meaning of life, the nature of time, or alternative conceptions of causality, but these puzzles do not readily yield to scientific analysis. So science throws these intricacies into philosophy where they can be mulled over. Eventually, when clarified and recast, scientists reclaim them.
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