With this in mind we have created this opportunity for you to ask us a question about anything at all to do with studying philosophy or just philosophy in general. Send us your questions and we will do our best to answer them. And don't worry if you think your question might sound stupid - there are probably plenty of people out there who want to ask the same question. This is still being debated by philosophers and psychologists, and students quite often find themselves studying one when they were actually interested in the other. However, in terms of studying at university, the difference is pretty clear.
Psychology sees itself as part of the natural sciences.
This means it aims to produce theories which can be tested in experiments and which will have power to predict what human beings will do under certain circumstances. As such, a lot of the study of psychology involves learning the techniques of the natural sciences, such as statistical methods, and experimental techniques. Contrary to many expectations, many courses on psychology therefore do not involve much study of Freud's psychoanalysis, which is regarded as scientifically questionable. Freud appears more often on philosophy and literature courses, as he does at Anglia. The study of philosophy, on the other hand, generally makes no claims to scientific status, because part of the task of philosophy is to understand what it is to make a scientific claim in the first place.