Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• Ahad Ganjalikhani ¹
• Mahdi Meshki ²

¹ PhD Candidate of Philosophy of Physics, Baqir Al-Olum University, Qom, Iran.

² Assistant Professor of Philosophy Department, Imam Khomeini Educational and Research Institute, Qom, Iran

Abstract

The relationship between science and its foundations and its influence on thought and worldview and how science is influenced by its foundations are important issues in the philosophy of science. In recent decades, due to serious discussions in the philosophy of science and the emphasis of some philosophers of science on the direction of science and value changes in religious societies, this question (the relationship between science and worldview) has been raised more seriously and religious science versus Secular science emerged and the role of secularism in the production of modern natural science became more apparent. Secularism, which is a kind of exclusivism in the field of existence and cognition, by entering each of the scientific fields, brings a different definition of the subject, method and purpose for that science. Undoubtedly, this school defines the principles and presuppositions of science based on its worldview. This article uses analytical-descriptive method to explain and study the role of the principles and presuppositions of secularism in the evolution of modern science and to try to express and show its secularist nature in its subject, method, nature and consequently its secular consequences. That science is not just a matter of experience, but that the thoughts of scientists influence the direction of science.

Keywords

• natural science
• secular science
• secularism
• principles of science
• presuppositions

Main Subjects

• philosophy