The good answers in philosophy are easy enough to find. We just offload them onto other disciplines for easy reference. For instance, once we’d gotten a good handle on natural philosophy, we started putting bits of it into new disciplines like ‘physics’.
Complaining about not finding easy answers in academic philosophy is like complaining that your R&D department hasn’t manufactured anything this week.
You suggested that ‘studying philosophy’ was not a “good use of one’s time”. Given how much we’ve already gone around the whole ‘philosophy is useless’ meme, I’d expect such a comment to just get downvotes from the at least a dozen or so philosophers kicking around these parts.
The good answers in philosophy are easy enough to find. We just offload them onto other disciplines for easy reference. For instance, once we’d gotten a good handle on natural philosophy, we started putting bits of it into new disciplines like ‘physics’.
Complaining about not finding easy answers in academic philosophy is like complaining that your R&D department hasn’t manufactured anything this week.
You suggested that ‘studying philosophy’ was not a “good use of one’s time”. Given how much we’ve already gone around the whole ‘philosophy is useless’ meme, I’d expect such a comment to just get downvotes from the at least a dozen or so philosophers kicking around these parts.
When was the last time another discipline was spun out of philosophy?
psychology, a century ago?