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If all knowledge were destroyed and had to be rediscovered, how would philosophy look different? How would it look the same?

For context, I'm from physics/mathematics where I think that the same concepts would be discovered and the same theories would be developed and organized in largely the same way. There might be different 'strange coincidences' between seemingly disparate subfields discovered at different times that are later reconciled within a larger theory but the fact will remain that the fields of math and physics divide themselves neatly in a way such that if any one subfield were missing, we would still stumble upon it at roughly the same point in history and it would illuminate the remaining subfields.

Is the same true in philosophy? Is it possible to imagine an alternate history where X subfield never developed? Which subfields would always arise? Which wouldn't? Could some emerge in fragments or as hybrids?
gpt
This may be interesting to you, because Alisdair MacIntyre would say that not only would philosophy be completely different, science would be as well because of the lack of a proper cultural context to situate a proper methodology and facts in. Think Canticle for Leibowitz if you know it. This was a famous point he made in the opening pages of After Virtue, where he argues that this scenario has indeed happened to moral philosophy, which has been at a dead end because of it. He’s a bit more optimistic of the ability to actually do proper moral philosophy if we return to a proper cultural context though.