• sab@kbin.social
    10·
    1 年前

    I guess people tend to look to astronomers for information about space, while the Fermi paradox probably borders more on philosophy than on astronomy. And in a lot of people minds philosophers are not real scientists, unlike astronomers.

    • CarbonIceDragon@pawb.socialEnglish
      6·
      1 年前

      Science and Philosophy might not be exactly the same thing, but there is a lot of overlap, and a lot of people who do both.

      • DrRatso@lemmy.mlEnglish
        6·
        1 年前

        An overwhelming portion of what is hard science now was probably in the domain of philosophy once.

        • Malgas@beehaw.orgEnglish
          4·
          1 年前

          You don’t even have to go very far back to hit a time when scientists were called “natural philosophers”.