What does the following mean? Distinguish the different senses of “science” in different disciplines of scienc?

unstopabel45: What does the following mean? Distinguish the different senses of “science” in different disciplines of scienc?
I have to write a final paper for my philosophy class: Philosophical theories of knowledge and reality
I do not understand what my professor is asking for me to explain in this paper. The topic is summarized in the statement above.
Actual statement:::: Make a long list of different kinds of science–Library science, Domestic science, and the more familiar sciences. Distinguish the different senses of “science” in these different disciplines.

Please explain what the professor means and any examples would be nice.

Thank you very much.

Answers and Views:

Answer by Alan Turing
He is just trying to get you to realize that people are somewhat sloppy in their use of the word science.

With things like library science that science simply means some means of organizing and categorizing things. Biology science was like that until Darwin’s core theory of evolution change it into a science that is about explaining why things are the way they are and how they got there. Before Darwin, biology was just a sort of library science of categorizing and grouping of living things.

Physics and chemistry are sciences in the way the term science is most accurately used. They are not just a means of categorizing and grouping things, and not just a way of explaining how things got to where they are, they are also a methodology of predicting what will happen in the future given known conditions.

Domestic science, political science, and sociology and psychology are also sciences but again the emphasis shifts to issues of control, defining what is normal or standard, how to effectively make change or maintain the status quo, and so forth.

So in each of these science means something that can be radically different and you need to be aware of it to understand what a science is. And your study could be called a science of sciences. And that is part of what philosophy is.

Answer by James C
Not without reading your school book that has the answer?