While many disciplines claim to teach critical thinking and problem-solving skills, philosophy is the one area that literally specializes in such skills.

While literally meaning "the love of wisdom," philosophy is the most ancient of academic disciplines. Fundamentally, philosophy is about understanding and analyzing arguments, determining whether a particular claim has relevant evidence provided for it, whether the evidence is logically related to the claim, and thus whether the claim is true, false, indeterminate, or as yet unsubstantiated.?