[Sticky] Questions in Need of Answers

This thread is intended to be a running list of questions that probably should be added to the FAQ, but which haven't yet been addressed. If you have a question you'd like to see answered (but don't feel qualified to answer it yourself), head over to this thread in r/AskPhilosophy and post a request. If you're an approved contributor here, feel free to create a "stub" answer post here with the question, and tag it with the "Request" flair. Approved contributors can reply with their answers, and a mod will move them into the body of the post and remove the "request" tag. Alternatively, you can reply to this post with your request and I will add it to this list.

Suggested Questions:

• Something explaining the continental-analytic split

• Solipsism/External world realism/other minds

• Empiricism, scientism, and epistemology

• Logical positivism and its downfall

• Marx and Hegel misunderstandings (this one might be too broad/big to be even a pair of posts)

• Nominalism and platonism in mathematics

• On the nature and purpose of proofs of god/first cause, etc.

• Where should I start as a beginner to philosophy?

• Something about depression/feeling worthless/suicide? r/philosophy has a little blurb in the sidebar, and maybe something similar directing people to a more appropriate sub would be enough.

• Something about nihilism

• Ayn Rand / objectivism

• Why moral realism?

• What's wrong with Sam Harris?

• What can I do with a philosophy degree?

• Is free will an illusion? (introducting compatibilism/incompatibilism)

• How can I make a choice if determinism is true? (distinguishing determinism from fatalism)