Philosophy covers a lot of ground (e.g. the subject matter that is generally called "science" today was once called "natural philosophy" and much of the contemporary science of psychology has its roots in the late 19th and early 20th century American philosophical movement called "pragmatism" (or later "pargmaticism" by CS Pierce in order that the term would be so ugly as to not be misappropriated)). And there are people who argue that psychology is not really a science and usually more because people will argue about anything than out of deep objectivity that is applied to their own position.
Anyway, there is a manifold in philosophic space in which proving things to win arguments matters and a manifold where torturing philosophy with the scientific method matters and a manifold in which there is doubt about the external world and one in which confusion arises from lack of rigor regarding language and one in which the goal is to prove the existence of gods and a manifold of other manifolds.
We all get to take our pick because philosophy is a big tent that is big enough that a philosopher is free to wander among the lion tamers and clowns and acrobats and look at what is interesting. Radical skepticism is a useful intellectual tool, but so are Platonic idealism and deconstruction and Kantian metaphysics. Anyone who thinks they've got it all correct is probably ignoring human fallibility (but maybe not).
Anyway, there is a manifold in philosophic space in which proving things to win arguments matters and a manifold where torturing philosophy with the scientific method matters and a manifold in which there is doubt about the external world and one in which confusion arises from lack of rigor regarding language and one in which the goal is to prove the existence of gods and a manifold of other manifolds.
We all get to take our pick because philosophy is a big tent that is big enough that a philosopher is free to wander among the lion tamers and clowns and acrobats and look at what is interesting. Radical skepticism is a useful intellectual tool, but so are Platonic idealism and deconstruction and Kantian metaphysics. Anyone who thinks they've got it all correct is probably ignoring human fallibility (but maybe not).