Has Philosophy over stepped it's boundaries?

[ComradeMeow]

What are the relevant areas of philosophy?

Obviously epistemology, jurisprudence and ethics are the most important areas of philosophy if you ask me.

Useless area would primarily be areas that come from ontology and metaphysics.

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In my view, you have it almost exactly wrong. Philosophy is a huge field, and scientific thinking is a subset based on certain core assumptions as well as goals.

I think what you really mean to say is, "Bullshit half-baked woo shouldn't be injected into the more rigorous field of science." With this, most would agree.

I mentioned this in my OP. Science grew out of philosophy. I am extremely aware of what philosophy has done although I am extremely aware of what it cannot do.
Philosophers love arguing about objectives claims or empiricism yet this is only done by science.

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^^ Pretty much the way I see it too. To my way of thinking, philosophy is about thinking your way into a set of problems where the way of it is not yet defined. As such, philosophy gives rise to fields with well defined methodologies. You shouldn't compare it to its 'children' however. Its scope is much wider but its objectives are always to-be-determined.

I actually like this wide open aspect of philosophy. It is philosophy seen as a history or body of literature which I'm not much interested in.

This is very true but a lot of this is rendered null when you see philosophers WAY overstate their case. Philosophical ideas tend to go into depth about matters way more than they should and enter the realms of self-help literature than analysis.

I sort of agree with previous posters in that philosophy is best applied as a simplistic mathematical method.