You're spot on there, I think. I go into Tyson's neoliberal, positivistic philosophy in my most recent article on his Starry Messenger, posted this morning.

And Will Durant had the same idea of how philosophy should be presented, as demonstrated by his The Story of Philosophy, which focusses on a philosophy's relation to the philosopher.

Do I have a high opinion of the intellectual counterculture? It's tragically heroic at best, as I've written elsewhere. And I prefer not to write much about myself.

https://medium.com/grim-tidings/is-science-enough-for-a-cosmic-perspective-795c770e85e?sk=58d64bf92f929ffe439f4d20d156f82d

https://medium.com/grim-tidings/the-ancient-cold-war-between-intellectuals-and-the-unreflective-masses-d0a85e0e9cda?sk=9228151d6257df2ee31ab91cd361c014

https://medium.com/grim-tidings/mass-societys-triumph-over-intellectuals-6272ad9a56aa?sk=291ca2095e380cc886551debd1c0cd48

https://medium.com/grim-tidings/the-last-laugh-of-the-intellectuals-50a26fe3311b?sk=58bb49c8995790848391cc8f8a8a959d