Philosophy is often interdisciplinary -- scholars in many programs learning critical thinking skills that can be traced back to various philosophers or their schools of thought. But the usage across fields is good--the more people learn to think for themselves the better off we'll all be.

Don, there's a joke I heard as an English MA candidate that worked just as well when I was a philsophy MA candidate--but all I can remember is the punch line:

"You want fries with that?"

Too bad the majors that feature communication and thinking skills aren't higher paying. It would benefit a lot of people to have an incentive to learn to think.

SRS