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You understand philosophy a lot better when you see it as The Inter-discipline.

Why is philosophy so hard? Because it has no defined techniques, problems, established knowledge base, or ends. Why does philosophy sit so uneasily within the humanities? Because it extends far beyond them.

Philosophy lives in the cracks.

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Andrew M. Bailey · 8w

And now a picky point: the right way to read the diagram is not as a strict Venn, according to which every part of physics etc, is also a part of philosophy. Rather, philosophy overlaps all the (blue) bits between the disciplines, and the white borders around each discipline.

a source familiar with the matter · 8w

I don't agree. I think Western intellectuals were unwilling to accept simple an obvious truths and wanted something more "profound". There's a real objective world outside my mind, which I can learn about through observation and experimentation. There's no need to complicate with a bunch of bulls...