What Is Philosophy and Why Is It Valuable?

A lot of philosophers think of themselves quite differently from that think of themselves as discovering truths in a way that's perhaps methodologically or in other ways somewhat different from what's going on in the natural sciences. So one question is about how sort of taking your description of how you relate to your own philosophical views when you see the work of philosophers who don't think of themselves in the terms that you've described. There's a very clear sense in which philosophy does not converge on on findings. And, and even if you hold the view and I know some philosophers do hold the view that there is something like progress in philosophy. It's unclear what the theoretical payoff of philosophical findings is because they don