The floor
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Is beauty in the eye of the beholder?
Are aesthetic judgments purely subjective, or is there something objective — even universal — about what we find beautiful?
Is the hard problem of consciousness solvable?
Even with a complete map of the brain's mechanisms, can science explain why there is something it is like to be a subject — the qualitative feel of experience?
Is free will an illusion?
If every event is the consequence of prior causes, can human choice ever be truly free — or is the experience of agency a useful fiction?
Should you pull the lever in the trolley problem?
Five lives versus one. Is the utilitarian choice obviously right, or does actively causing harm cross a moral line that allowing harm does not?
Is knowledge justified true belief?
Gettier cases seem to break the classical definition. Is there any account of knowledge that survives them, or should we give up on defining knowledge altogether?