I think part of the reason philosophy is taught this way is that very little is settled in the field. So in order to teach philosophy at all you have to go back to someone’s views. Makes for a great field for status mongers, all else equal (is philosophy actually worse than the rest of academia in this regard? How about just in comparison to, say, physics or economics?) .
I think part of the reason philosophy is taught this way is that very little is settled in the field. So in order to teach philosophy at all you have to go back to someone’s views. Makes for a great field for status mongers, all else equal (is philosophy actually worse than the rest of academia in this regard? How about just in comparison to, say, physics or economics?) .