Philosophy might eventually retcon its self-image to that effect once most of its major problems have been solved by non-philosophers, but I’ll view that about the same way I view certain crowds’ insistence that religion has never been about making empirical claims.
Maybe in modern times a lot of academic philosophers are more interested in keeping questions open so they can keep writing papers on them, but I think most philosophers throughout history have at least sincerely wanted to know the answers to the questions they were thinking about.
Philosophy might eventually retcon its self-image to that effect once most of its major problems have been solved by non-philosophers, but I’ll view that about the same way I view certain crowds’ insistence that religion has never been about making empirical claims.
Maybe in modern times a lot of academic philosophers are more interested in keeping questions open so they can keep writing papers on them, but I think most philosophers throughout history have at least sincerely wanted to know the answers to the questions they were thinking about.