The divorce between science and philosophy—treating them as separate enterprises rather than continuous—has been detrimental to both; science properly understood is a form of philosophy, an investigation of nature using particular empirical methods, but always drawing on and implying philosophical principles.

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Whitehead said this divorce between science and philosophy is is has been the detriment of both and I think that science properly understood is a it is a form of philosophy it's an investigation of philosophy in certain particular empirical methods

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Iain McGilchrist, Rupert Sheldrake and Alex Gomez-Marin in conversationDr Iain McGilchrist
Created: 8/12/2026, 6:27:29 PM

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