> Before its migration to the university, philosophy had never had a central home. Philosophers could be found anywhere — serving as diplomats, living off pensi

> Before its migration to the university, philosophy had never had a central home. Philosophers could be found anywhere — serving as diplomats, living off pensions, grinding lenses, as well as within a university. I think we've come back to this. While philosophy in the academy might be navel-gazing and disconnected, blogs and regular people talk about philosophy all the time. Philosophy is something we engage in before we've fully wrapped our heads around a problem, or know how to test it or formalize it. It's all the gaps between formal logical reasoning and science, and there are a lot of those gaps. Read something like [1], written by someone who's a doctor by trade, and you can see the hands-dirty philosopher is still out there. [1] http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/ http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/