Science & Environment
That the restriction is merely methodological means that science shouldn’t contemplate supernatural explanations itself, however mustn’t declare them to be wrong both. Instead, supernatural explanations should be left a matter of private perception outdoors the scope of science. Methodological naturalism maintains that proper science requires strict adherence to empirical research and unbiased verification as a process for correctly developing and evaluating explanations for observable phenomena.
The right task of philosophy, they suggested, is to formulate a “logic of the sciences” that may be analogous to the logic of pure arithmetic formulated by Frege, Russell, and Hilbert...
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