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That comment totally got it. When S. Hawking said, philosophy is dead, he was right, was death for him, the the gross of the world still doesn't understand what essentially philosophy is, and more important, how it can help you, therefore , when people will start questioning basic behevoirs and trying to understand basic things then , philopsohy will have reach the end , which is teaching the humans to think by themselves . At least this is what I think.

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No, that doesn't sound right at all. The second paragraph of the linked comment has it right: professional philosophers are in the business of clarifying fuzzy ideas, such as for example, what is meant by 'free will'?

University philosophy departments are not in the business of teaching critical-thinking skills to the masses. That is the responsibility of high-schools. (Or at least, it should be.)

Indeed, the works of proper philosophers are generally completely unknown to those who haven't formally studied philosophy. I doubt your average STEM graduate could name 3 living philosophers. (I'm of the opinion that this says bad things about what philosophy has become, but that's not the point.)

That's how we end up with articles like this, which claim to summarise the recent progress of philosophy, but make no mention at all of any real philosophy, recent or not.

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