Science vs Philosophy

1. What are the similarities and differences between Science and Philosophy?
2. Write a SHORT CRITIQUE PAPER ABOUT THIS ARTICLE:

Philosophy Is Not a Science
By JULIAN FRIEDLAND 

        There is a definite distinction between philosophy and science. Philosophy and science may be somewhat confusing for many because of their interrelatedness most especially that there are many arguments between them. Many sciences depend on philosophy and vice versa. Science is best likened to the human mind while philosophy is to the human heart. Science, in general, seeks to understand natural phenomena. It is more concerned on empirical evidences and testable hypotheses. By empirical, it means that which can be observed or experimented on. By contrast, philosophy is vaguer. Defining it in one concrete sentence may not define it entirely. I would say the difference between science and philosophy is that of certainty and doubt. Where science is based upon certainty to study the strange, unexplained and chaotic. Philosophy in general is a skeptical study of everything. It is based upon doubt as the starting pointing. Where scientific empirical approach would seek to prove every theory wrong and therefore through the methods of elimination reach the one that cannot be proven wrong and therefore, a philosophical mind would not allow itself any such station of certainty until it could simply doubt no more.

The author implies that we need to restore philosophy as the "mother of all knowledge." I agree with the author. Logic and math are not proven by science, they are presupposed by it. Indeed, there are many forms of nonscientific and objective knowledge. Through introspection (not science), I know I certainly exist. Through Logic (not science), I know all animals are either rabbits or nonrabbits. Through math (not science), I know 2+2=4. Through language (not science), I know all bachelors are unmarried. Philosophy still may have a place in the tradition it began and that produced the modern sciences, but what remains for it to do that its founders failed to should be its focus, not new fields of philosophy. Scientists can help out by using their real names, biologist, chemist not 'scientist’. I think it's right that Philosophy deals with what is necessarily true, and science deals with what is true. Another way of saying the same thing is that Philosophy deals with what is possible and science tries to determine which actual are possible. For this reason, Science needs philosophy because Science takes its assumptions about what is possible for granted. In short, there is great value in philosophy and much of philosophy is objective.