Damon asked:

I've noticed that a lot of the focus in professional philosophy at any one time is very narrow, and of the
"hop on the bandwagon" sort.

It seems to be a matter of what's in vogue at the time, and once it falls out of vogue, it's dismissed.

That makes little sense, since rarely can any theory be proven to be false. Even the questions we ask
are contextually dependent. Am I right in what I sense?

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Ok... let's take physics. Don't you think that lots of the focus there is on what's in vogue right now? I
mean, just everyone is doing the same experiments or the same theory... right now it's string theory,
right? And all that stuff about "dark matter"... everyone'swriting about dark matter! I guess physicists
are just like philosophers... whatever's the rage, that's where the grants are... whoops, no grants to
speak of in philosophy. Well, anyway, what can I say? We philosophers are just like the physicists, I
guess, a flighty lot, swayed by fashion, hopping on the old bandwagon. I mean, why not, since, as
you say, no theory can be disproven?

Steven Ravett Brown