No. In the past, I've enjoyed reading some overviews of philosophy and engaging in some light philosophizing of my own. IOW, I enjoy playing with it at the "pop philosophy" level. But when it gets down to reading the actual writings of philosophers like Spinoza or Descartes or Hegel, I lose interest pretty quickly.
I'm more interested in things like religion and psychology. They are more oriented toward personal and cultural experience (subjective views on the world and universe), and I do enjoy reading the source texts in those disciplines for the most part.
I agree completely.
I follow your thinking but one thing to consider is that religion and psychology are ruled by philosophies. Example: B. F. Skinner who shook the world of psychololgy and still affects all of us today in homes, schools and work places, created operant conditioning (positive/negative enforcements) based on his philosphical theory of Radical Behaviorism. A philosophy being applied in an area you're interested in might interest you.
Indeed it might, especially because I've never read anything about radical behaviorism, and the word "behavior" indicates that the theory will relate to how people (and perhaps other animals) behave.
The key here is that I'm only interested in an idea insofar as it enlightens me regarding people's behavior, perceptions, culture, etc. I suspect that's part of being dominated by feeling: my interest can scarcely be separated from people and how things impact people. Psychology and international affairs are two of my main interests.
I suspect Ti is one of the main, if not the main function geared toward and interested in philosophy. Te would seem to be geared more toward efficiency and organizing the outer world (making charts and schedules) whereas Ti would seem to be more concerned with refining ideas and creating very specific, sharp definitions of those ideas and terms. A person operating from Ti can be as obsessed with one idea as an Fi-dom can be obsessed with a value, and she can refine that idea or principle and refine it again until the end of eternity, or until she realizes that the principle is not productive to her life, not important, or she finds a principle more promising and interesting. In the same way, people operating from Fi can let go of values and stop refining them and basing decisions on them.
If Ti is the function most compatible with philosophy, then types with more Ti would be more prone to philosophizing.
INTP, ISTP, ENTP, ESTP, INFJ, ISFJ...
I'm sure there are a lot of complex factors that interplay to determine how interested someone is in philosophy, but essentially, those with Ti in their top four functions probably have a more philosophical bent than those who don't, regardless of introversion and extroversion, intuition and sensing, thinking and feeling, etc.
Anyone who is concerned with ideas is not necessarily philosophical, if we are defining philosophy as such:
philosophy: the critical study of the basic principles and concepts of a particular branch of knowledge, esp. with a view to improving or reconstituting them:
the philosophy of science.
People operating from Fi are not so much concerned with principles or the truth of being as they are concerned with what they value and what they feel is true and good. Fi is not a function that one would use to logically redefine or build on a principle, but rather it is a function one would use to decide what is worth believing in, based on gut reactions and feelings (the subjective), not principles and facts (the objective).
