Good science makes good predictions and often leads to useful tech.  There&#x27;s an obvious external arbiter of quality.  Same goes for math, where more or less everyone has agreed on ZFC.<p>Good philosophy... is whatever other philosophers decide is good.  No external arbiter of quality.  Lots of disagreement about foundational assumptions (certainly nothing like the agreement we have in math).<p>This looks like a very clear-cut case of rent-seeking by an insular cultural institution.