Philosophy of Science or Scientific Philosophy? :: Philosophical Essays

Philosophy of Science or Scientific Philosophy?ABSTRACT Pursuit of Ultimate Reality forms the foundation of philosophical inquiry. The present paper represents a pursuit of this sort. Here I make a humble effort at making philosophy scientific an effort which is based on the revitalization of Atomism initially formulated by some ancient philosophers of the East and West Jainas, Vaisesikas, Democritus, Beucippus and others. Every material particle, however minute, is composite and divisible naturally, the original stuff of the universe is required to be non-particular. Modern physicists have reached the terminal point of the method of analysis and succeeded to transform a very little part of a thermonuclear mass into an enormous kinetic energy by way of fission and fusion. The energy as such, being the power of activity dormant in the nuclear mass of each atom, is obviously non-particular and original. Thus mass is continually being transformed into energy and conversely, resultin g in the evolution of everything that makes up the universe so that the original power is amenable to transformation and strange to annihilation. The present paper is an attempt to explore a possible reply to the query inserted in the very title. Here I shall make a insular use of the term Science to mean the physical or Natural Science, and present only the prcis of the whole thing for the sake of brevity.IThe universe of discourse is a big zero. The Earth and all other planets move round the Sun, satellites move round the planets, the negativity supercharged * electrons move round the positively charged nucleus to constitute an atom even each of the elementary particles in the nucleus (nucleons) has a spin of its own, like the Earth the orbits may however, be circular, elliptical, angular or the like. Whatever be the type or form of the orbit, the circumference described by any body moving round its centre (nucleus) batch never come to an end. Man is therefore apt to consid er the universe to be eternally present.IIThe living cell has a nucleus deuce human beings of opposite sexes constitute a unit, i.e., a family in which any one of them normally acts as the nucleus because the society may be hoary or Matriarchal each such family, again, serves as the nucleus of a larger family, the largest being the human society as a whole and a society in The Society found in every habitable part of the globe is governed by a person or a group of persons that the society centres round.