FILOZOFI I NAUČNICI: PRIJATELJI ILI PROTIVNICI?
PHILOSOPHERS AND SCIENTISTS: FRIENDS OR FOES?

Summary/Abstract: Although philosophy was exposed to ridicule or was seen as a "suspicious" activity that undermines the system (as in the case of Socrates) from its very beginnings, it seems that the contemporary era is the era in which philosophy is exposed to the most severe criticism, especially that it is "meaningless" and "useless". A social system that has redefined all values to mean efficiency and profitability fails to see philosophy as an activity that would be in line with its new "values."The purpose of this paper is to consider how the transformation from natural philosophy to science, through a too narrow interpretation of the same as a "defeat" of philosophy by natural science, has led to a discursive conflict between these two concepts of knowledge. Our position is that there is no real conflict between science and philosophy, that natural science has never given up its philosophical origins, and that true scientists have never considered philosophy an obstacle in their research; on the contrary, the greatest scientific minds, such as Einstein, thought that dealing with science at the fundamental level requires a dialogue with philosophy.The future of human knowledge is not based solely on dealing with one of these fields of human knowledge which would be the only right one, but in a joint venture and cooperation.

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