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I can't name offhand any important problem that philosophers posed and other philosophers later solved. From Zeno's paradox to Newcomb's problem, solutions always seem to come from other fields.
Take David Hume's correct refutation of the design argument, for example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hume#The_design_argument
This argument is still used today - though we know a bit more about the subject now.