I too have a philosophy degree from a good department. Your comments are basically dead on, but I would add a slight caveat regarding pre-contemporary philosoph

I too have a philosophy degree from a good department. Your comments are basically dead on, but I would add a slight caveat regarding pre-contemporary philosophy. I do think there is some pedagogical value in reading some canonical works of modern philosophy, just for context about what Frege and later analytical philosophers are reacting to. I wouldn't completely write off Kant and Hume, for instance. Hegel, yes, but that doesn't mean it's completely not worth reading.