>Yes, philosophy has structurally shrunk in terms of its empirical domain, this historic transition is often called the "carving out" or the "daughter disciplines" phenomenon of philosophy.>For centuries, philosophy (philosophia, meaning "love of wisdom") was the umbrella term for all systematic human knowledge. What we now call "science" was known as natural philosophy. As specialized methodologies developed, massive branches broke away to become independent fields:>The 17th Century (Physics & Astronomy): Figures like Isaac Newton wrote Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy). Physics was the first major branch to establish its own empirical, mathematical baseline and leave the nest.>The 19th Century (Biology & Chemistry): The life sciences formalized their own empirical methods, moving completely out of speculative philosophy.>The late 19th / 20th Century (Psychology & Sociology): Psychology was long considered "philosophy of the mind." With the birth of experimental laboratories (like Wilhelm Wundt’s in 1879), it became an empirical science. Linguistics and economics followed similar paths.>From this perspective, philosophy looks like a shrinking empire, losing territory every time a topic becomes measurable and testable. As the philosopher Bertrand Russell famously noted: "As soon as definite knowledge concerning any subject becomes possible, this subject ceases to be called philosophy, and becomes a separate science."Even AI thinks philosophy has been in decadence for centuries already, it's over.
Nigger its programmed to agree with you in anything that doesn't violate content guidelines if you delete your chat history and argue the contrary it will also agree. Chatjeetpt is the perfect circlejerker
>>18723347Go ahead, ask it the opposite and see if it agrees or disagrees.
>>18723804Lol. I got pages back on how much it has grown.Philosophy has not simply enlarged a fixed empirical territory the way an empirical science expands its observational base. Historically, large parts of what was once “natural philosophy” spun off into autonomous sciences (physics, chemistry, biology, psychology). What remains as philosophy is still heavily conceptual, normative, and a priori in method. Yet over the last half-century or so, the discipline has structurally expanded its engagement with empirical domains and has developed new subfields and methods that treat empirical findings as central rather than peripheral.
>>18723822>empirical findings are central to analytical philosophy
>>18723822>Historically, large parts of what was once “natural philosophy” spun off into autonomous sciences (physics, chemistry, biology, psychology). What remains as philosophy is still heavily conceptual, normative, and a priori in method.Come on anon, this part completely agrees with what I got.
