Not so philosophy and art. These are not techne; that is, these are not skillful or disciplined modes of work with settled…
Not so philosophy and art. These are not techne; that is, these are not skillful or disciplined modes of work with settled criteria of success and operative norms. Scientists ask questions and produce answers. Philosophers and artists, in contrast, raze answers in the quest for concealed questions (…). Scientists know what their answers mean, and they are agreed, almost always, in what counts as evidence for or against them. Success and failure are terms with straightforward meaning when we are in the domain of science. This is not the case with artworks or philosophical products, which are willfully and, sometimes at least, fruitfully obfuscatory.
Alva Noë. 2023. The Entanglement: How Art and Philosophy Make Us What We Are. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.