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I have to agree with my man Parkhurst here, there's nothing in the world you can prove conclusively. As Karl Popper puts it, all knowledge is conjecture and refutation.
I personally believe that philosophy is the primary discipline. It is the bedrock on which all other sciences and arts are built. And not only that, it gives you the ability to turn back on those sciences and arts and deconstruct them.
To say philosophical arguments don't have any meaning is ridiculous. In terms of changing the way you live your life, perhaps not, but I have never felt my mind so stretched as it was the day I tried to grapple with Immanuel Kant's theory of time. It was the mental equivalent of Marine Corps boot camp.
I certainly think I'm a better person for having studied philosophy, and despite the apparent futility of the questions that can't be answered, I think it has an awful lot to tell us about ourselves and the world we've built.
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