What's the point of philosophy any more?

[vulcanlogician]

So if it works for the sciences, why shouldn't it also work for philosophy?

I'm not saying it doesn't work for philosophy. Philosophy is really kind of in a perpetual paradigm shift, at least until very recently. I mean, all a paradigm shift is is a discovery that you were operating under a set of assumptions that aren't true. Philosophy is always challenging its own assumptions.

And it didn't require a philosopher to point out that paradigm shifts happen. The history of science tells us that.

Why do we need wheat farmers? Bread comes from the supermarket, after all.