Rebekah Cook - Science versus Philosophy

As a science major, I’ve learned to think of things in terms of facts and figure out answers, but as a philosophy minor I’ve learned to break theories apart and create new ideas.  When I decided to become a philosophy minor, it was because I received some great advice from a medical school professor who told me that philosophy majors actually have the highest acceptance rate into medical school.  In an essay titled “Science versus Philosophy” by Joseph Rowlands, he explains how most believe that science and philosophy don’t really have the friendliest relationship because philosophers talk about how the world should be while scientists talk about what the world actually is.  He explains how this thought process is clouded because philosophy actually encourages scientists to concentrate on experiments when it may not make sense.  Without philosophy, science would not be able to interpret fact.