What's the Use of Philosophy? Quotes

“Philosophy might aspire to something similar, the framing of conceptions that can assist existing disciplines, or even initiate new modes of inquiry. At important moments in its history it has done just that, but its success has resulted from careful attention to features of the state of knowledge or of the broader human condition. There is no internal dynamic of building on and extending the problem solutions of a field that can be pursued in abstraction from other inquiries. In part that is because of the lack of procedures for yielding firm solutions, but also because philosophical issues evolve. As Dewey remarks of philosophical questions, “We do not solve them: we get over them” (Dewey 1909/1998, 14).”
― Philip Kitcher, What's the Use of Philosophy?