The question of the death of philosophy cannot be the question of the death of theoretical speculation. The death of philosophy as I see it is the death of a particular institution, a discourse anchored in the tradition of using intentional idioms and metacognitive deliverances to provide theoretical solutions. I think science is killing that philosophy as we speak.
Would it kill you to read more than one sentence, PVC? And as a matter of fact, if he sounds "decades behind the argument" it is because he is a sort of neo-Nietzschean. Sadly for post-modernists and traditionalists alike, Nietzsche's use of metaphysics to destroy metaphysics has never been defeated - only disregarded.