World Philosophy Day

Apparently today is World Philosophy Day. Who knew? You'd think they would tell philosophy majors about this sort of thing...

For those interested in my answers to the questions posed in the BBC article they are as follows:

1. This is a bad question because morality is completely subjective. It is up to each particular community to decide what is right and what is wrong.

2. This is a bad question because there is no right or wrong way to define 'same' or 'person', and no objective reality to check your answers against.

3. This is a bad question because skepticism depends upon there being objective truth. You can' t be deceived if all there is is your experience. There would have to be some 'true' way the world is for your experience to deviate from the way the world actually is.

4. Again, bad question. [You can probably see by this point why I don't do philosophy anymore; I think that all philosophical problems are pseudo-problems that don't have real answers because the very questions assume things that are mistaken.] In ordinary conversation and talk about the mental (intentions, desires, beliefs, etc) there is free will. In the context of physics (and, as far as I'm concerned, philosophy), free will is utterly incoherent. [Thanks to Eliot Sitt and Donald Davidson for this answer].