Consciousness and philosophy of mind, for example on functionalism/​computationalism and higher-order theories. This could have important implications for nonhuman animals and artificial sentience. I’m not sure how much debate there is these days, though.
You mention you’re not sure how much debate there is around consciousness these days. Surprisingly I’d say the same is increasingly true of normative ethics.
There’s still a lot of disagreement about value systems, but most people seem to have stopped having that particular argument, at least as regards total vs negative utilitarianism (which I’d say was the biggest such debate going on a few years ago).
Normative ethics, especially population ethics, as well as the case for longtermism (which is somewhere between normative and applied ethics, I guess). Even the Global Priorities Institute has research defending asymmetries and against longtermism. Also, hedonism vs preference satisfaction or other values, and the complexity of value.
Consciousness and philosophy of mind, for example on functionalism/​computationalism and higher-order theories. This could have important implications for nonhuman animals and artificial sentience. I’m not sure how much debate there is these days, though.
You mention you’re not sure how much debate there is around consciousness these days. Surprisingly I’d say the same is increasingly true of normative ethics.
There’s still a lot of disagreement about value systems, but most people seem to have stopped having that particular argument, at least as regards total vs negative utilitarianism (which I’d say was the biggest such debate going on a few years ago).