Philosophers don’t discuss things which can be falsified.
Sometimes in life, one simply faces questions whose answers can’t be falsified, such as “What should we do about things which can’t be falsified?” If you’re proposing to avoid discussing them, well aren’t you discussing one of them now? And why should we trust you, without discussing it ourselves?
I think you had the bad luck of taking a couple of philosophy classes that taught things that were outdated or “insane”. (Socrates and Aristotle may have been very confused, but consider, how did we, i.e., humanity, get to our current relatively less confused state, without doing more philosophy?) Personally I took a philosophy of physics class in college that I really liked, which led me to learn about other areas of philosophy.
I wrote more about my guess of what philosophy is and what philosophers do at Some Thoughts on Metaphilosophy, which you may find interesting since we both come from a math/science background (computer science in my case).
Sometimes in life, one simply faces questions whose answers can’t be falsified, such as “What should we do about things which can’t be falsified?” If you’re proposing to avoid discussing them, well aren’t you discussing one of them now? And why should we trust you, without discussing it ourselves?
I think you had the bad luck of taking a couple of philosophy classes that taught things that were outdated or “insane”. (Socrates and Aristotle may have been very confused, but consider, how did we, i.e., humanity, get to our current relatively less confused state, without doing more philosophy?) Personally I took a philosophy of physics class in college that I really liked, which led me to learn about other areas of philosophy.
I wrote more about my guess of what philosophy is and what philosophers do at Some Thoughts on Metaphilosophy, which you may find interesting since we both come from a math/science background (computer science in my case).