The highly educated are more willing to defer to experts on mathematical or scientific questions than we are on philosophical questions. It seems to me that the reverse is true for less educated people, though I am not confident about this.
Part of philosophy is making a legible model to explain the way things “seem to us,” to capture our intuitions. If our intuitions are not coherent or consistent, then insofar as philosophy attempts to reflect those intuitions and take them seriously, it will either fail to be coherent or become counterintuitive. Philosophy that does focus on topics more distant from human intuition, and that is grounded in physics or axioms, seems to achieve greater durability and consensus.
The highly educated are more willing to defer to experts on mathematical or scientific questions than we are on philosophical questions. It seems to me that the reverse is true for less educated people, though I am not confident about this.
Part of philosophy is making a legible model to explain the way things “seem to us,” to capture our intuitions. If our intuitions are not coherent or consistent, then insofar as philosophy attempts to reflect those intuitions and take them seriously, it will either fail to be coherent or become counterintuitive. Philosophy that does focus on topics more distant from human intuition, and that is grounded in physics or axioms, seems to achieve greater durability and consensus.