People often say that they think it is the job of philosophy to question our typical assumptions. My hot-take is that that’s false.

Now I don’t thereby think that it is the job of philosophy to confirm or assume our typical assumptions either. But it’s the job of philosophy to find the truth.

The reason this is significant is that it’s easy to “question assumptions.” But it’s much harder to come up with an actual theory that is truth-tracking. And a lot of philosophy is done simply by “attacking assumptions” in a way that degrades virtue, knowledge, wisdom and truth.

We should want to avoid that.