Susan Haack recently published an article with the title "The real question: Can philosophy be saved?": https://www.researchgate.net/publication/319990958_The_Real_Question_Can_Philosophy_be_Saved_2017
From the first page:
Yes, something is rotten in the state of philosophy. I'd go so far as to say, as an unusually candid friend put it a few years ago, that our profession is "in a nose-dive." (How far can it go? What can I say? -- the sky's the limit)?
At the end, she cites one of Peirce's remarks about "sham reasoning": "it is no longer the reasoning that determines what the conclusion shall be, but the conclusion that determines what the reasoning shall be." John
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