Yes, I have to open up the scope of my answer a little more. My backround is rooted in Logical Empiricism and it was quite usual to hand metaphysical questions over to music or artistic professions. Yes, I know that metaphysics is an important branch in philosophy and it led me to my second thought whether our tendency to specialize within academia can cultivate kind of "sects", a closed group of people where it's quite difficult to left the hard earned mindset which was constructed in the first place.
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Sure, concepts get trapped in eddies, where they do no one any good and die a lonely death. Liberating these concepts so they can go out and procreate is the benefit of generalists, no ;-)
No reason to "hand" anything over to anyone. If you can't explain something in words that someone outside of your discipline can understand, than I would argue that perhaps you don't understand it as well as you think you do ;-)