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Pfft, what is philosophy? The natural sciences had almost completely robbed it of its intellectual validity by the mid-19th century, and this advance continues to this day. All that's really left to philosophers is vague discussion about morals and politics, and even these subjects are not safe from the scientific method.

I gave up on the subject (after a long obsession with it, and a couple years of study at university) after reading David Hume's crystal clear presentation of the problem of induction. What a devastating attack on philosophy as a whole! What can you depend on without absolute certainty? It looks a lot like Bayesian priors, and a lot like science.