The So-Called World of Science

The “subdiscipline known as philosophy of science has a long and respected history; many of the most eminent and influential philosophers these days are philosophers of science” (Dennett 188). The early philosophers started as the early thinkers of their time, coming up with ideas regardless of any conflicts with traditions. What does science have to do with philosophy? It is because of science that the early thinkers began to philosophize, such as the reality of objects. What is real and what isn’t? The following will discuss the pluralistic aspect of science.
Unlike monism and dualism, pluralism is “the view that reality is composed of many different kinds of real things” (Palmer 113). Greek philosopher Aristotle, an early pluralist, believed that reality is composed of individual “substances” that have essence (146). After World War II, the philosophies of that similar to Viennese philosopher Ludwig Wiggenstein and Cambridge philosopher G. E. Moore supporte...