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Personally, I do think, philosophy should not exist without a scientific basis. So, science should research questions that arise from philosophy.
However, the concept of consciousness underpinning most of modern philosophy, morals, laws etc. is entirely unscientific.
And in that respect, yeah, I do also think that science should not bend over backwards to accomodate that. It's society that needs to catch up.
Philosophy can't have "a scientific basis.
If an idea has a legitimate scientific basis, then it's not philosophy - it's science. Philosophy explicitly addresses ideas for which there is not, and in most cases there can't be, a legitimate scientific basis.
Right, that wording wasn't necessarily the best. I meant "basis" there, as in it not having been fully explored by science.
To take a recent example, the EU allowed the use of glyphosat for the next ten years. As a pesticide, there's considerations to be made:
Well, and for those topics, science provides a basis discussion frame:
Science doesn't have oppressive evidence to make one and only one strategy the logically correct approach, so we need philosophy. But philosophy shouldn't be blathing nonsense either. It needs to be as close to reality as possible, which is where we need science.