Abstract

Does 'La philosophie a ses raisons que les sciences ne connaissent pas?' Yes. For metaphysics, which both in its acceptance and dejection, is fundamental to all philosophical thought, uses methods and has goals different from those of science, which I explore in my paper. Yet, the time has come to reintroduce and bring-up-to-date what it is useful to call the classical view of the inter-relatedness between metaphysics and science. This view calls for a cooperation between the two, with neither rejecting or seeking to dominate or accepting the dominance of the other.