It'd seem that you have an implicit criteria for what constitutes doing philosophy. What do you mean exactly? In school you read the philosophy of others and wr

It'd seem that you have an implicit criteria for what constitutes doing philosophy. What do you mean exactly? In school you read the philosophy of others and write papers to try and add something to the arguments. Are you thinking more the old school systems guys like Liebniz, Spinoza, Descartes, etc who did other jobs and werent academically affiliated?