10 questions ignored by mainstream philosophy + Misgivings on 2020 PhilPapers Survey

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Some misgivings about the 2020 PhilPapers Survey
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10 questions ignored by mainstream philosophy
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INTRO: Raymond Geuss, Agnes Callard, Tommy Curry, Kate Manne, Julian Baggini, Sundar Sarukkai, Maria Balaska, Sara Heinämaa, Robert Sanchez, and Robin R. Wang on contemporary philosophy’s blind spots.

For this year’s World Philosophy Day, we asked ten leading philosophers from around the world, working in different philosophical traditions, what are the most important questions mainstream philosophy ignores or has forgotten about today. With analytic philosophy having dominated the English-speaking world and beyond, we can often forget that there are other philosophical traditions alive and kicking. They operate under different sets of assumptions, take different texts as their starting points, and end up in different places. But even within analytic philosophy, there are philosophers that are pushing the limits of that tradition, asking new and original questions, or re-invigorating an otherwise a-historical line of thought with forgotten but still relevant questions from the past... (MORE - questions, responses)

THE QUESTIONS:

What is the role of personal judgement in rational thought?

What is 'nothing', and how can our experience of anxiety shed light on it?

How do we reconcile our moral intuition that all humans have an intrinsic value, with our intuition that some people are better than others?

What if Black thinkers are correct that racism makes philosophy, and the democratic project it presumes, an unworkable failure?

Why are we so determined to discover the truth even when discovering it will actually harm us?

How can we understand the world as something that we share in common with all beings?

What are those imperatives that seem to us to be moral obligations, but in fact are not?

What if a different tradition of philosophy—Africana or Latin American—were the dominant tradition?

How should we define philosophy today?

Does wandering still have a role to play in our philosophical life?

[Magical Realist]

What is 'nothing', and how can our experience of anxiety shed light on it?

I am ambivalent regarding nothing. Sartre proposed that it is the essence of being a consciousness in the world that it is what it is not, and that this angst of nothingness is the price we must pay for being truly free. Heidegger views the nothing as essentially the fact of our own death which we must resolve ourselves towards in order to be an authentic being. Both posit the nothing of which we are anxious as an experience in being human.

I haven't decided if it is or isn't an experience, since if it is truly nothing, no experience of it would be possible (the not even nothing of extinctivist death). But if it is nothing as the experience of lack or emptiness, then it has profound implications for our spiritual natures. The nothing in this case betokens a need for a transcendent filler. At present I only know for sure that there is Being or somethingness, and that this omnipresence of Being is an a priori and deeply given premise of all experience and thought.