This text explores the relationship between philosophy and specialized scientific disciplines from both a historical and methodological perspective. The author notes that since the emergence of specialized sciences through their separation from philosophy, philosophical inquiry has become dependent on contemporary scientific knowledge and what specialists deem to be true or probable. Before the rise of science, philosophy relied on common, pre-scientific experience, a source it continues to utilize to some extent today. While the sciences systematically expand, refine, and organize our knowledge of the world, philosophy must account for these findings despite its own limited capacity to acquire empirical data outside its own "thought practice." The study highlights the necessity for philosophy to engage with the current state of scientific knowledge while maintaining its unique reflective role in the process of human understanding.