I blame science, math, engineering, entrepreneurship. Philosophy is the practice of the esoteric method, meaning it can’t be made truly legible for very long stretches of investigation. This results in accumulation of anti-epistemic hazards, which science doesn’t particularly need to have tools for dealing with, because it can filter its reasoning through frequent transitions into legibility.
Philosophy can’t rely on such filtering through legibility, it has to maintain sanity the hard way. But as philosophy enviously looks at the more successful endeavors of science, it doesn’t see respect for such methods of maintaining sanity in its reasoning, instead it sees that merely moving fast and breaking things works very well. And so the enthusiasm for their development wanes, instead philosophy remains content with the object level questions that investigate particular truths, rather than methods for getting better at telling which cognitive algorithms can more robustly arrive at truths (rationality, metaphilosophy).
I blame science, math, engineering, entrepreneurship. Philosophy is the practice of the esoteric method, meaning it can’t be made truly legible for very long stretches of investigation. This results in accumulation of anti-epistemic hazards, which science doesn’t particularly need to have tools for dealing with, because it can filter its reasoning through frequent transitions into legibility.
Philosophy can’t rely on such filtering through legibility, it has to maintain sanity the hard way. But as philosophy enviously looks at the more successful endeavors of science, it doesn’t see respect for such methods of maintaining sanity in its reasoning, instead it sees that merely moving fast and breaking things works very well. And so the enthusiasm for their development wanes, instead philosophy remains content with the object level questions that investigate particular truths, rather than methods for getting better at telling which cognitive algorithms can more robustly arrive at truths (rationality, metaphilosophy).