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Philosophers tend to avoid that question and argue about extremely niche things like Ship of Theseus problems.
Lol what are you on about. There is an entire body of active philosophical work about the meaning of life: https://scholar.google.com.au/scholar?as_ylo=2024&q=meaning+of+life+philosophy&hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5
My impression of it being like that is largely due to the split between analytic and continental philosophy. Anglophone universities tend to focus on the former and then the latter has a larger body of work from mainland Europe; the many French existentialist philosophers would be a good example.
That's what makes philosophy interesting.
I am on my seventh Ship of Thesus, my D: contains /DOSGAMES/ and has a "folder created date" of August 1996.
As far as I'm concerned, it's the same ship because I can load up my original SAVEGAMES, they still work, and they can kiss my ass. My ship has gone through the swamp man paradox and emerged the same on the other side. :>
I'm surprised the updates worked that far
Source: pop philosophy?
I've got two philosophy degrees, an undergrad and a masters.
Then I stand corrected!
Well the sciences keeps taking all those peksy answerable questions, and religion stole half the remaining ones and is half way across town by now.
Philosophy is just left holding the bag of all the quibbly things noone is interested in or dont have answers on purpous.
Philosophy of science was big when I was still studying it. Stuff like whether the Linean System of classifying species were still fit for purpose or the gaps in our knowledge that modern physics leave.