New approaches in science

philosophical research [1929b]

Maria Reichenbach

pp. 249-253

in: Maria Reichenbach, Robert S. Cohen (eds), Selected writings 1909–1953, Berlin, Springer, 1978

Abstract

That it is possible today to speak of philosophical research can itself be regarded as a characteristic of modern philosophy. For the very word "research" designates a method. In admitting that it engages in research, philosophy classifies itself, from the methodological standpoint, among the special sciences, which progress step by step by solving particular problems and attain a systematization of the whole only by assembling the various components of knowledge embodied in these situations.