Abstract
Concept of Information: The Point of Convergence for Philosophy and Science or the Vanishing Point of Parallels?
Highlights
There is a popular belief that the divergence of science and philosophy began recently, but more careful look at the intellectual history of Europe can trace this divorce much earlier
Snow originally in 1956, sometimes with the period of popularity of Logical Positivism and its crusade against metaphysics, with the period of the Enlightenment, with the views of Francis Bacon revolting against philosophical tradition in his Novum Organum and his promotion of the inductive method, or with the much earlier
2 distinction between philosophers and mere “mathematicians” whose only concern was “saving the appearances”. It was mainly the influence of Aristotle and his philosophical views that, if not immediately, inevitably led to the divergence. His views on the division of knowledge, which gave the priority to the theoretical sciences over “other sciences” and divided the former into mathematics, physics and first philosophy (Aristotle, 1955: Metaphysics 1025b18-1026a31) contributed to the divorce, but they were not the most important
Summary
Concept of Information: The Point of Convergence for Philosophy and Science or the Vanishing Point of Parallels?. The presence of an observer (human or not) cannot be eliminated from the description of the observed These strategic, fundamental divisions organizing the streams of intellectual activity into parallel directions of development had their influence not so much through Aristotle’s declarations, but through the conceptual framework of his philosophy, which is present, sometimes in a hidden way or through an apparent negation in the entire later European intellectual tradition. It is this framework which has to be examined when we want to search for the methods for convergence of science and philosophy
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