IMO I think philosophy has had a lot of major historic victories that prove the worth of the field. These often get overlooked, though. When a philosophy probl

IMO I think philosophy has had a lot of major historic victories that prove the worth of the field. These often get overlooked, though. When a philosophy problem becomes well understood it tends to move into its own specialized field. For example the nascent fields of geometry, physics, and economics were all once part of philosophy. We get kind of a selection bias. Philosophers have a reputation for having their heads in the cloud, because we only think of the areas they've made the least progress in.