Cosmas asked:

1. Is there any connection between science and philosophy?

2. Can I define philosophy as a subject that tries to answer questions about right and wrong?

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1. Yes, there are lots of connections. Science, after all, was known for a long time as Natural
Philosophy. It started in Philosophy and it continues to rely on a series of assumptions which are
philosophical. These assumptions include: that everything that happens has a cause; that the world is
explicable in mathematical terms; that there is no need to invoke supernatural causes when
explaining events and so on. Investigating such assumptions is the role of Philosophy of Science.

Equally, philosophy (in my opinion) has to draw on lots of scientific advances. While I don't think that
science can answer most philosophical questions, we most certainly have to take account of scientific
knowledge in philosophizing about questions such as the nature of consciousness, the link between
the mind and the body, the nature of morality and many more.

2. Well, to paraphrase what Lewis Carroll had Humpty Dumpty say, you can define any word in any
way you wish. But that doesn't really answer your question — I am being facetious.

More seriously, the subject which tries to answer questions about right and wrong is a part of
philosophy — Moral Philosophy or Ethics. Philosophy itself also tries to answer other questions as
well, and has several other parts. Examples: questions about the rules of formal reasoning make up
Logic, questions about what beauty is are in Aesthetics, questions about the ultimate underpinnings
of reality are Metaphysics, questions about what we can know are in Epistemology.

Tim Sprod