Name:Okparaji-Philip Nyimenka Favour
Matric:no 19/Law01/199
A REVIEW OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE.
The positive response to science came as a result of a change in the socio cultural milieu of the time and this explains why belief in science or application of science to any issue is called positivism and the socio cultural milieu which positivism grew is called renaissance and enlightenment period. It is called renaissance because it marked a period when people started a revolution of return to their Greek heritage of using reasons in matters of public concern,the aeon prior to the renaissance was the dark age as it was the time religious beliefs reigned supreme and the pope was the final authority on any matter be it political,social or intellectual. However the intellectual community saw this as a big threat to humanity especially in areas of happiness and survival. The period of history which is commonly called modern has a mental outlook which differs from that of medieval period in many ways,of these two are the most important,the diminishing authority of the church and the increasing authority of science. Scientific approach to things grew out of philosophical approach to issues but science was restricted to study of natural phenomena because it was the only material that was believed to behave in a regular and predictable way.
SOCIAL SCIENCE;Social science is an area of study dedicated to the explanation of Human behavior,interactions and manifestations either as an individual or as a society in groups. Social science seek to employ the method of science and investigation of social phenomena taking the human person as an object of study. Objectives of social science may include,
	1.	Discovering and manipulating if possible, the laws of governing most of human behavior.
	2.	Influencing human behavior,grooming it towards a socially desirable conduct and channeling collective effort towards development. 
It has to be understood that one of the essential features of science and scientific explanation is to provide a casual or correlational connection between an event and its issue and for anything to be the cause of another,the cause and effect must have an invariable or constant relation in the sense that whenever the alleged cause occurs,the effect must also occur. By employing the scientific methods in social investigations,the social sciences seek to explain the cause of action involving human agents. Another problem with the project of social science according to Max Weber is that the methodology of science becomes inapplicable due to the fact that the object of study is man, a rational being with free will, emotions, desires, these factors undermine the notion of predictability of behavior of which natural science is known to deduce their principles and laws.