There&#x27;s a part of philosophy that is more like mathematics than underwater dance -- or perhaps more closely, literary criticism -- but it&#x27;s only a small part (it used to be a large part, but then most that part became &quot;natural philosophy&quot;, and from there &quot;science&quot;; what&#x27;s left as philosophy is mostly formal logic and building creative models for interpreting the world and&#x2F;or morality, held together -- usually -- with formal logic.)<p>And actual academic programs in philosophy often have a distinct Euro-American (with a dash of Middle Eastern, primarily attached to the Abrahamic faith traditions) cultural bias.