Philosophical problems

ability of agents to be the ultimate source or originator of their choices, free from external determination

philosophical and spiritual question concerning the significance of living or existence in general

claim that the structure of a language affects its speakers' world view or cognition

question of whether God exists

question on reconciling the existence of evil with an omnibenevolent, omniscient and omnipotent God

open question in philosophy of how abstract minds interact with physical bodies

about how to distinguish between science and nonscience, including between science, pseudoscience, and other products of human activity, like art and literature, and beliefs

thought experiment in ethics

philosophical question of whether properties exist, and if so, what they are

philosophical problem about whether justified true belief always counts as knowledge

philosophical problem articulated by David Hume in 1739 about how one can deduce prescriptive statements (what ought to be) from descriptive statements (what is)

the problem of explaining how and why organisms have qualia or phenomenal experiences

epistemological question of whether inductive reasoning leads to definitive knowledge understood in the classic philosophical sense

thesis that it is impossible to test a scientific hypothesis in isolation, because such an empirical test of it requires other assumptions

philosophical thought experiment: “if a man born blind, who can feel the differences between shapes, is given the ability to see, could he distinguish those objects by sight?”

philosophical thought experiment

the epistemological problem of how one can know that others have minds, given that one can only observe the behavior of others

philosophical concept

inability to describe conscious experiences in soley physical or structural terms

metaphysical question

philosophical problem of whether it is possible to talk about God meaningfully if the traditional conceptions of God as being incorporeal, infinite, and timeless, are accepted

conceptual conflict between general relativity and quantum mechanics

the problem of finding adequate collections of axioms for a viable description of a robot environment using first-order logic

Interpretation of quantum mechanics in which consciousness is postulated to be necessary for the completion of the process of quantum measurement

expression of the problem of infinite regress

Conceptual issue in the philosophy of mind

philosophical question

problem in epistemology that any proposition can be endlessly questioned

a list of some of the major unsolved problems in philosophy

philosophical question

consideration of predation as a moral problem