My read on the state of public academic philosophy is that there are many specific and potentially-but-not-obviously-related issues that come up in the general topic of "foundations of inference". There are many angles of attack, and many researchers over the years. Many of them are no longer based out of official academic "philosophy departments" anymore and this is not necessarily a tragedy ;-)

The general issue is "why does 'thinking' seem to work at all ever?" This can be expressed in terms of logic, or probabilistic rea... (read more)