This is a big factor IMHO. Philosophy is trying to live somewhere between science and theology and there just isn't much room there anymore. Worse, a lot of that space is filled with dubious areas of study or rat holes (example: Bertrand Russel's Principia Mathematica) so philosophers find themselves hemmed in at both sides.
Yet philosophy is at the base of how we do science. The principles of falsification or Kuhns Paradigms are quite important in how we understand "the body of knowledge" that science helps us build.
In my world philosophizing is not the same as being a philosopher. You can be an excellent philosophizer without having any degree and you can be a horrible one with all the degrees in the world.
Re:When Philosophy Lost Its Way
by throwupper247 on Monday January 11, 2016 @06:00PM
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It wasn't displaced, it delegated|dispatched|forked and is having a hell of a time piecing the puzzle and getting rid of the excess.
This:
The second event was the placing of philosophy as one more discipline alongside these sciences within the modern research university. A result was that philosophy, previously the queen of the disciplines, was displaced, as the natural and social sciences divided the world between them.
may also be a problem because the healthier parts of philosophy, concerning "Why?" or "How?", got turned into science. The less healthy parts got turned into philosophy.