A lot of the sciences (as all fields of study at the university) is more art than science (in the English sense). Locking in philosophy to be more like the scie

A lot of the sciences (as all fields of study at the university) is more art than science (in the English sense). Locking in philosophy to be more like the sciences, narrows down the enquiry. Take the social sciences, where philosophy is crucial to provide epistemology, how do we know, that is crucial to look at when conducting a study. Or ontology, what is there really, what are social relations, what is culture. Philosophy's metaphysics grounds the sciences, the project of Kant who came from the sciences, and was shocked by rationalism and empiricism, which shake the very foundations, the former basically saying we cannot trust our senses and have to derive everything from thought alone, and empiricism, saying thought is messy, everything has to based on sense-data. Kant then provides the synthesis of both concepts, and in the culture wars we can still see its reminiscences. We never have cold facts, all of what we know is based on apriori knowledge, things we take for granted, learned, are influenced by society. So philosophy is crucial as a base layer. Trying to abolish this layer only impoverishes the sciences.