Is philosophy dead?

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Personally, I see philosophy as the map and science as the tool to find the most efficient path once you've decided where you want to go. Science can only tell you what is, it can't tell you what ought to be. I know Sam Harris hates that (from what I remember) but it doesn't stop it being the case. I don't find his arguments persuasive on this matter. He just appears to shoe-horn in a load of prepacked philosophy and then not call it philosophy.

So no, I think philosophy is alive and well. If you call the kind of thing I'm thinking about philosophy.