I think philosophy gets a lot of bad press because people both inside and outside of academia don’t understand what philosophy is or confuse it with something else. I’ve also found that many institutions that don’t have philosophy departments or philosophy courses still engage with mainstream academic philosophy under some other guise.

Maybe Philosophy would have a larger profile if we renamed it “Conceptual Management and Planning” ☺️

I think philosophy gets a lot of bad press because people both inside and outside of academia don’t understand what philosophy is or confuse it with something else. I’ve also found that many institutions that don’t have philosophy departments or philosophy courses still engage with mainstream academic philosophy under some other guise.

Maybe Philosophy would have a larger profile if we renamed it “Conceptual Management and Planning” ☺️

As a philosopher, I hope that philosophy isn't an endangered species! I concur with Karl that many scholars and non-scholars don't understand that philosophy--the love of wisdom--is the foundation of all disciplines, such that every non-philosophical discipline (mathematics, biology, and so forth) has an underlying philosophy that drives it. Without philosophy, we have no logic or reasoning.

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Dear Filgueiras-Nodar & readers,

A good question.

I think we are seeing that though philosophy has some need of its formalistic ivory towers, if it doesn't occasionally come down to have a look at what is actually going on in the world, then it gets lost.

Philosophy tends to become excessively inward-looking, only interested in what other philosophers say, and trapped in an institutionalized system of mutual support and the trading of academic favors. That's the ivory tower. It can protect, but it can also distort the sense of relevancy.

May folks make good use of the academic retreat. One good use of it, however, is to take a peek outside and look to more empirical concerns with develops in the arts, the sciences, society and politics. The overly insulated philosophers might start by striking up a discussion with the homeless people on the streets and trying to understand their problems and see things their way for a bit. That might be a start.

H.G. Callaway

Pienso que la filosofía se ha ido convirtiendo poco a poco en Teoría de la Complejidad, la que, por una parte es filosofía y, por la otra Teoría de Sistemas

I follow the answer Dr. Karl Pfeifer .

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I do not think so. Philosophy is not an endangered species.

Pretty much so

In my particular case, I'm an engineer. Philosophy is not only the basis of all disciplines, having the opportunity to discuss problems and understand the philosophy behind the problems we solve as engineers engenders countless knowledge and understanding of how nature works, and why we decide solve problems with one approach or another. Philosophy helps us understand how we think about problem solutions.

It would be like my colleague says, it helps us see the holistic relationships of the problems, and how we generate solutions with the same perspective.

I do not believe that this extinct one is in each one of us with different names. The difficult thing is that academics recognize that it is present.

I think the same my colleague Yorlandys, the philosophy is near to every people related with some of part of science world

The philosophy misses the component of the confirmation of its postulates . It contributes ways to understand the laws that are behind the problems of the nature, the society, the thought, the prevalence or not, depending on the philosophical tendency, of the divine over the material thing or of the material thing over the espirutal. But all this has to do with the interaction of all the things and therefore, with the object of the complexity theories. For these reasons I think that both areas of the knowledge must leave fusing until becoming one as a consequence of satisfying the necessity to confirm its postulates.

Philosophy is a tool. A tool of thinking. As long as people use this tool philosophy can't die. And since we used this tool for thousands of years it's hard to believe that it would be endangered in any way. I believe this tool called philosophy is deeply engraved in our minds. Otherwise we wouldn't use it.

A more useful question is: Why does noone listen? Well philosophy solves abstract, non-practical questions (at least most of them are). Most actual problems are easy to solve and practical. So philosophy is pretty useless for most things.

What should we do? Use philosophy in a different manner! We shouldn't answer questions only. We should also tell how to use the knowledge that we gained. We should show how to use it. Also we write and speak in a manner that noone except philosophers understand (maybe change that as well).

If noone listens to you, you might want to change the way you speak. (sorry for bad english.)

Philosophy is the love of learning and for the words used to study and describe matters related to spirit. Philosophy allows one to see beyond.

Similarly, a love of knowledge of the world and nature is what constitutes science.

philosophy is really the mother of all the sciences, which children blame, criticize and ridicule

I very much appreciate this discussion. I wonder if it is helpful to differentiate between formal expressions of philosophy (e.g., what happens in the academy) and informal expressions such as the way some movies and some television productions use the medium to explore (not merely endorse a perspective) fundamental questions related to values, virtue, human nature, etc.?

I have to agree with Sebastian on this. Philosophy is an all-encompassing portion of our collective knowledge base, but most people do not want to hear another's ideology beyond what they already think they know. When your current thought process is challenged the normal response is to ridicule the challenger. As was amply demonstrated in the 2016 election in the USA, rhetorical nonsense plays better to an uneducated populace. In order for philosophical arguments to be better understood they must be couched in simplistic, easy to understand, practical terms. Otherwise, the baser instincts of self-preservation can be negated by self-defeating ideas which get ostensible support by those who do not understand the impact of such decisions.