>every year several thousands of people in the US are awarded

>>9615955
We don't need any philosophers. Philosophy turned into pseudoscientific gibberish with no applications in the 20th century and will never get better.

Philosophy we "need" is not philosophy, it's political science or natural science or sociology or logic or something else. What's left is the stuff we don't need (the philosophy journals that not even philosophers read).

>>9615955
graduating with a philosophy degree doesn't make you a philosopher. Getting a phd in philosophy doesn't even make you a philosopher. There probably are only five philosophers, give or take.

>>9615955
No, we really don't need that many. Unfortunately, most of them are graduating from shitty, third-rate programs as well. They go on to make the discipline look bad by spewing obscurantist twaddle, much like the desperate lawyers who graduated from shitty law schools and have given the U.S. it's lawsuit problem.

Now I think we could probably do with a few more than five new philosophers being minted every year. Maybe 100, all from elite programs. I'm assuming you were being somewhat facetious with that remark, though.

>>9615955
Would you prefer them to be Doctors of Gender Studies?

>>9615994
who are they?

>schools are job factories, not centers of learning
People will always WANT to study philosophy, that's why that exists

Let market decide

>>9615955
There's an excess of graduates in nearly every field. Why only apply this analysis to the field of philosophy?

>>9616134
>Let the market decide
>muh market fundamentalism
Almost as embarrassing as being a christcuck

>>9616124
Jordon B Peterson
Neil Degrasse Tyson
Sam Harris
Zizek
Cenk from The Young Turks

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