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Philosophy is a strange field because it combines subjective ramblings with serious analysis of concepts just outside, but intimately connected with, scientific fields. Things like natural philosophy, logic, ontology, all of that frames our worldview and serves as a fundamental basis for science to jump off from without questioning everything. But there's no way to truly separate these things, you just have to understand that a lot of philosophy is mental exercises that don't affect anything, but that doesn't mean there aren't extremely important debates. Consider, for example, Aristotle's worldview and methodology and how it affected the entire intellectual enterprise in the West. And then see how that worldview changed and morphed into a more materialist, mechanistic metaphysics that enabled natural sciences to blossom and opened new ideas about humanity and our place in the world. These aren't inane babblings, these are ideas that detemine history, and the first mark of a shitty philosopher is not understanding intellectual history. Christianity itself is irrevocably determined by ancient writings of Greek philosophers and can't escape the same questions, we literally wouldn't live in the same reality without Plato and Aristotle determining all they did. If you really don't see how philosophy is important next to science you should read thinkerd that invented concepts science works with, like Democritus and Aristotle's Physics and classical logic, Francis Bacon and Descartes. IMO the true interest I have in philosophy is not a means to discover Truth, it's how ideas have shaped civilization. Study history and then maybe sometime you can read nodern papers and argue about which ethical system is least bullshit.
