There are many people on HN who explicitly believe that all philosophy is worthless, so when you say "philosophy is in crisis", I read you as saying "philosophy

There are many people on HN who explicitly believe that all philosophy is worthless, so when you say "philosophy is in crisis", I read you as saying "philosophy is in crisis." So I do think it was not clear from context. But I'm glad that I know the target you intended. In any case, I still disagree. I think the Chinese Room thought experiment is not a good one, and the thesis that it's arguing for is wrong. However, I do not think it is any scientific observation that refutes it. The objections I've seen to it are philosophical in nature. Also, I do not agree with _xander. First, I do not think epistemology is in any privileged position. At an abstract level, epistemology is no freer from the findings of statistics and empirical psychology of reasoning than philosophy of mind is free from the findings of neuroscience and psychology. Second, I do not think that philosophy of mind is badly off. Of course there are people who advance positions I find misguided (Searle is one), but that's not the same as the field being misguided.