I wrote post on history of #philosophy and its relationship to current study: http://sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2017/11/philosophical-tradition-and-autonomy.html … One thing I presupposed is that philosophers should have a better explanation of why they do what they do than `it's a living'. I realise now that I have never defended that!
So what we were trying to do in paper is suggest a way forward on (i) which, if carried through, would also allow people to empirically test the diagnoses given by intersectionality theorists and thus allow some scientific resolution to debates mentioned in (ii). Hope this helps!