My philosophical views

The answers shown here are not necessarily the same provided as part of the 2009 PhilPapers Survey. These answers can be updated at any time.

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QuestionAnswerComments
A priori knowledge: yes or no?Insufficiently familiar with the issueI'm not quite clear on what exactly a priori knowledge is, although I accept that there is at lease some real phenomenon in the neighbourhood of a priori knowledge.
Abstract objects: Platonism or nominalism?Agnostic/undecidedTotally on the fence
Aesthetic value: objective or subjective?Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Analytic-synthetic distinction: yes or no?Lean toward: yesLike with a priori: I'm not sure what analyticity is supposed to be exactly, but I think there's some real phenomenon in the neighbourhood of the distinction.
Epistemic justification: internalism or externalism?Lean toward: externalism
External world: idealism, skepticism, or non-skeptical realism?Accept: non-skeptical realism
Free will: compatibilism, libertarianism, or no free will?Lean toward: compatibilism
God: theism or atheism?Accept: theism
Knowledge: empiricism or rationalism?Agnostic/undecided
Knowledge claims: contextualism, relativism, or invariantism?Reject one, undecided between othersLean towards: reject invariantism, undecided as to others
Laws of nature: Humean or non-Humean?Lean toward: Humean
Logic: classical or non-classical?The question is too unclear to answerLean towards classical logic for truth-functional connectives; not sure for quantifiers; don't know what this would mean for modal, tense, etc. (E.g., would accepting classical rule out tense or 2nd order?)
Mental content: internalism or externalism?Accept: externalism
Meta-ethics: moral realism or moral anti-realism?Accept: moral realism
Metaphilosophy: naturalism or non-naturalism?The question is too unclear to answer"Naturalism" could mean "no spooks, etc.," or something like "there are objective natural kinds". I don't know which one you mean.
Mind: physicalism or non-physicalism?Lean toward: physicalism
Moral judgment: cognitivism or non-cognitivism?Accept: cognitivism
Moral motivation: internalism or externalism?Lean toward: externalism
Newcomb's problem: one box or two boxes?Accept: two boxes
Normative ethics: deontology, consequentialism, or virtue ethics?Lean toward: deontology
Perceptual experience: disjunctivism, qualia theory, representationalism, or sense-datum theory?Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Personal identity: biological view, psychological view, or further-fact view?There is no fact of the matter
Politics: communitarianism, egalitarianism, or libertarianism?Agnostic/undecided
Proper names: Fregean or Millian?Agnostic/undecidedKeep changing my mind
Science: scientific realism or scientific anti-realism?Accept: scientific realism
Teletransporter (new matter): survival or death?There is no fact of the matter
Time: A-theory or B-theory?Lean toward: B-theory
Trolley problem (five straight ahead, one on side track, turn requires switching, what ought one do?): switch or don't switch?Agnostic/undecidedMy intuitions bunk out on me for this one
Truth: correspondence, deflationary, or epistemic?Lean toward: correspondence
Zombies: inconceivable, conceivable but not metaphysically possible, or metaphysically possible?Lean toward: conceivable but not metaphysically possible