I am German, maybe this makes the difference. We define science as an object of study, with the basic distinction between natural sciences, which can be explain

I am German, maybe this makes the difference. We define science as an object of study, with the basic distinction between natural sciences, which can be explained, and the human sciences that have to be understood. The social sciences enhance in the way also the natural sciences, as everything is a social construct, even physical terms, what is a desert, what is climate, or even what is a man or a woman. Philosophy once included natural philosophy where we would now locate the scientific method. But hermeneutics is equally a scientific method. The reduction of science to the explanation of "certain" physical phenomena is exactly why we then fail to understand the world.