Philosophers are a lot like programmers. The car you drive, the clothes you wear, the food you eat - all of them are touched in some way by a computer program - even if you personally are unaware of how these computer programs design things and route people & things. Philosophy is like this - the most ardent Bible (or Quran) thumping fundamentalist makes a bevy of philosophical arguments, even if they do a poor job of it while they are unaware of it.
As with programming, the more esoteric and technical aspects of philosophy can be difficult for the layman to grasp. No policy maker would dream of de-funding computer science education because it's obtuse to the general public. Yet somehow technical difficulty is a knock against funding philosophy education in the USA....
As with programming, the more esoteric and technical aspects of philosophy can be difficult for the layman to grasp. No policy maker would dream of de-funding computer science education because it's obtuse to the general public. Yet somehow technical difficulty is a knock against funding philosophy education in the USA....