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What are the big questions?
The purpose of philosophy is to ask questions that no one has yet been able to answer. Some would say that the point of philosophy is to take nothing for granted. I don't think this approach makes sense anymore, however, because it relies on a set of implicit assumptions which are not well understood.
For example, the philosophy of science takes it as a given that all scientific theories must be empirically verifiable. What is not at all clear to me, or anyone else I know, is why this assumption should hold. The philosophy of mathematics also seems dubious because it relies on what are called 'foundational principles', such as that numbers exist and can be added together.
It seems to me that there are no such things as foundational principles, anymore than there is a foundation of the universe. Even if one takes everything for granted, asserting that numbers exist and can be added together still doesn't explain anything about how they actually do so. It merely asserts their existence.
So I think science is in much the same way as philosophy. Both are just collections of observations and experimental results that we assume to be true without really knowing why they are so.
For example, the scientific theory of evolution is supposed to tell us how species change over time. But it doesn't really explain anything at all about what life is or how it came to be in the first place.
And of course there is no such thing as the theory of evolution. It's just a collection of empirical observations about life on earth that we take for granted, and then try to fit together into some sort of coherent story.