Is philosophy dead?

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Right.

Informally, I think of science as dealing with the real, and philosophy dealing with the abstract. We necessarily use abstract concepts all the time when modelling reality, so that builds philosophy right into it.

Of course, philosophy is often thought of as just discussing the "meaning" of things and so on. I don't know if it's a really-well defined term or not.

And like Alex says, you're making philosophical assumptions all the time, like "there is an external reality" and "logic works a certain way" and so on, before you even get into "killing is bad".