Curious, I'm not quite sure how this gets attributed, in part, to me. I would agree with a couple of those, but I think much more likely is that we have no idea what philosophical questions will prove important or central fifty years from now (though the professionalization of the discipline perhaps makes it somewhat easier to predict).
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