What it looks like
Rocket science has a discipline. So does brain surgery, and so does mixing a cocktail. Philanthropy has scholars too: Indiana University’s Lilly Family School of Philanthropy describes itself as the first school dedicated solely to the study and teaching of philanthropy. There are evaluators, consultants and advisors.
Charitology proposes a practical craft that compares giving across causes, methods and moral frameworks. Whether that adds something useful to existing fields is a question to test. The availability of a domain name is not evidence that a field or profession is absent.
Why it happens
The working concern is that knowledge spread across causes and professions may not be shared well enough. The other fourteen conditions suggest questions for such a craft; they do not prove that existing practitioners lack methods or training.
This is a hypothesis
Charitology’s founding claim is that a profession would change where money goes, the way medicine changed how illness is treated. That hasn’t been tested. Testing it is Open Problem 17, the Profession Question.
No one is to blame
Naming a proposed craft is an invitation to learn and test it. It is not a verdict on existing professions.
Charitology is a recognized craft. People train in it, practice it, check each other’s work and pass it on, the way medicine and engineering do.