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That may be why people ought to read them, but I don't think it's why they read them. Philosophy, as taught in colleges and books, places almost no emphasis on methodology, identifying errors, critiquing and disposing of extremely bad or outdated ideas, etc. It's as if the Enlightenment never happened.
Michael Vassar says philosophy is a field unconcerned with what people in college teach as philosophy, but I don't know what he means. Possibly he means philosophers now are either analytic philosophers or deconstructionists.
?! Add "anything other than" right after "almost no emphasis on" and you'd have it about right. At least, judging by the two universities whose philosophy courses I took. YMMV.