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This is interesting to me in a sort of tangential way. It seems like studying philosophy exercises this tendency to propagate your beliefs in order to make them coherent. In fact logical belief propagation seems to embody a large aspect of traditional philosophy, so I would expect that on average someone who studies philosophy would have this tendency to a greater degree than someone who doesn't.
It would be interesting to me if anyone has seen any data related to this, because it feels intuitively true that studying philosophy changed my way of thinking, but it's of course difficult to pinpoint exactly how. This seems like a big part of it.
This seems right to me. I know a fair amount of philosophers and at least some varieties of them seem to naturally disfavor compartmentalization.
For example, I was originally an atheist for purely methodological reasons. Religion invites dead dogma, and dead dogma kills your ability to discover true beliefs (for exactly the same reason "0 and 1 are not probabilities"). I felt therefore that adhering to a religion while being a philosopher was professionally irresponsible.