The Progress of Philosophy
The link below is to an interesting article about the progress of philosophy as a discipline. Daly makes important points about the difficulty of philosophical questions, the problem of disagreement between competent philosophers, and the differences between scientific method and philosophical method.
Herewith, I suggest a counterexample to one of Daly’s claims. He writes: “The jury remains out on this, and indeed on every other, problem in philosophy. Philosophy displays increasing ingenuity without an emerging consensus.”
There is a consensus among contemporary philosophers that the logical problem of evil fails and that the live issue concerns the probabilistic version(s) of the problem. This is no insignificant development in the discipline.