If no one's theory [in any given domain] works, it means that no one has a working theory, no?
Sorry for coming off as flippant. I think that most low hanging fruits in philosophy have been reaped long ago, and most of the present debates take place within very field specific contexts. In this sense philosophy is perhaps not different from math.
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It made me smile :-) I think parts of philosophy grow up & leave home. e.g. “Natural Philosophy” & Psychology. The parts not empirically decidable never do. I see great value in philosophy as an effort to notice what we otherwise assume without question.
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I am frustrated with the state of some academic philosophy though. The willingness to engage in hard topics without deep formal understanding, the mixed intellectual quality of discourse, the pretense, and the ease by which the community is captured by ideologies indicate crisis.
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