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Some consider philosophy to be the bridge between the social academics, an amalgamation of liberal arts such as sociology, psychology and (to a limited extent) physics.
Academically, philosophy exists as the intellectual dregs that have not been (or cannot be) systematically assembled into a science. As a philosophy major most of my classes center around epistemology (what humans can know and how they can know it), ethics (utility, objective "good") and metaphysics (reality, existence). Other classes have dealt with the philosophical aspects of such things as art and law, but these are not the principle interests of modern philosophy. Modern philosophy is grounded in logic: only arguments that are founded upon sound and valid logical structure carry weight.
To me 'philosophy' is simply the human experience: any careful thought derived within a human mind, wether it be turned inward or outward, constitutes a philosophical inquiry.
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