but it’s genuinely troubling to see non-expertise emerge as a predictor of getting any important question in an academic field right.
Perhaps it is a self-selection effect. Here is a relevant link.
If the example mentioned in the link can be extrapolated, perhaps non-experts in [insert any relevant philosophical subfield] avoid that particular subfield precisely because they think it is a fraud.
perhaps non-experts in [philosophy as a whole] avoid that particular subfield precisely because they think it is a fraud.
This was my default expectation beforehand, and still is. People form their opinions first and then talk about justifying them. Making it more complicated than this doesn’t help explain the data.
Perhaps it is a self-selection effect. Here is a relevant link.
If the example mentioned in the link can be extrapolated, perhaps non-experts in [insert any relevant philosophical subfield] avoid that particular subfield precisely because they think it is a fraud.
This was my default expectation beforehand, and still is. People form their opinions first and then talk about justifying them. Making it more complicated than this doesn’t help explain the data.