Is philosophy the love and pursuit of truth? If so, do the members of this panel believe that there are other ways to attain truth (life experience, religious experience, aesthetic experience, etc.) other than by doing philosophy? Could an old man with a rich life of varied experiences understand more about morality than Kant, despite not having gone through such a rigorous process of reasoning? And, if so, can one have this knowledge without being able to translate it into philosophical jargon (aka (?) reason)?

Sure! One way to pursue truth is to open your eyes and look around. You discover, for instance, that there is a computer screen in front of you. That's a truth. Reading science books, or for that matter seed catalogs, is another way to pursue truth. But it seems to me that you are really asking about truths to do with philosophical issues like the nature of right and wrong or the like. Can't wisdom earned over a largely unreflective life end up closer to the truth than even ingenious and assiduous attention to arguments and definitions? Here too the answer is, sure! After all, the clever engineer's theory of bridges might be mistaken, and the stone mason might by trial and error have happened upon a much better sense of how to span streams. Still, I think that this may be both to understimate the degree to which unscholarly wisdom is systematic, and to underestimate the degree to which good academic philosophy relies on ordinary perceptiveness and intuition. The wise old man has not...