It's "disagreement all the way down"

Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford

      "Of course, intellectual progress requires specialization and its patois.  We start with big questions:  'How does a multicellular organism develop from a zygote?'.  These questions are too big for us to answer.  So we break them down into smaller questions and keep going until we get to something small enough to be tractable.  But philosophy is not like science.  Scientists answer their small questions.  They arrive at reliable results that are accepted by their peers.  For philosophers there is disagreement all the way down.  Smaller questions only make for smaller squabbles."

     Rachel Fraser, "The biggest questions:  how philosophical inquiry should be made to serve human needs," a review of What's the use of philosophy?, by Philip Kitcher (Oxford University Press, 2023), Times literary supplement no. 6272 (June 16, 2023), 7 (7-8).  "Philosophy, then should not model itself on science.  What is the alternative?"