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Why did philosophy never become as dominant as religion and science?

I understand that the lines between these three are often blurred, but even so, it's hard to miss that philosophy isn't as mainstream as religion and science. 84% of the human population identifies with a religion. But if you ask a random person whether they identify as a utilitarian or deontologist, you'll probably get a confused look or a vague, middling answer. Each year, governments invest billions of dollars in scientific research: much of it theoretical and with little application. How much funding does philosophical research get?

I see philosophy as having the same goal as religion and science: to find the truth, and to use it to explain the world. But it hasn't been popularized the same way. Why?
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But philosophy in one sense is an institutional and academic discipline, and in the other sense it is just everyday thinking about the same subject-matters that the academic philosophy is also interested in.

> But if you ask a random person whether they identify as a utilitarian or deontologist.

If you ask a random person whether the consequences of an action or the intentions behind the action are more important in determining whether it's moral or not, then they will have answers. You can simplify it much much more. While "84% of the human population identifies with a religion", only a small portion of them are knowledgeable about actual theological discussions. The same goes for science as well. You can ask a person whether he think evolution is true or not, and you will get an answer. But you won't likely to get an answer if you ask him whether sociobiology can help evolutionary biology.

Also "finding the truth" is rather an unpopular opinion in metaphilosophy these days, understood as the Platonic ideal of philosophy.

As for fundings, thought experiments don't cost nearly as much as hadron colliders.