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?The question is too unclear to answer
Abstract objects: Platonism or nominalism?Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Aesthetic value: objective or subjective?Lean toward: objective
Analytic-synthetic distinction: yes or no?Lean toward: yes
Epistemic justification: internalism or externalism?The question is too unclear to answer
External world: idealism, skepticism, or non-skeptical realism?Accept: non-skeptical realism
Free will: compatibilism, libertarianism, or no free will?The question is too unclear to answerSome moral practices make sense only if understood practically and causally. Other moral practices are probably counterproductive. I don't know that "determinism" as a global thesis is relevant to all of this. I doubt that determinism is true globally, but I don't think that does anything to help what some think free will is.
God: theism or atheism?Accept: atheismWell, it could depend on what you think "God" names, but there seems not to be anything besides the natural world.
Knowledge: empiricism or rationalism?The question is too unclear to answer
Knowledge claims: contextualism, relativism, or invariantism?Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Laws of nature: Humean or non-Humean?The question is too unclear to answer
Logic: classical or non-classical?Accept: non-classical
Mental content: internalism or externalism?Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Meta-ethics: moral realism or moral anti-realism?Accept another alternativeMoralities are plural but real. They consist of the shared social understandings and expectations of conduct that bind us to one another.
Metaphilosophy: naturalism or non-naturalism?Accept: naturalism
Mind: physicalism or non-physicalism?Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Moral judgment: cognitivism or non-cognitivism?Accept another alternativeI am a norm-expressivist about moralities in the plural. Moralities vary. However, I am a naturalist about the human good. Some moralities realize human good for those who practice them better than others, but that does not make them moralities to a greater degree than the moralities that more poorly realize human good.
Moral motivation: internalism or externalism?Accept another alternative
Newcomb's problem: one box or two boxes?Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Normative ethics: deontology, consequentialism, or virtue ethics?Accept another alternativeI am a consequentialist in social and political philosophy. I am a Hegelian about human moralities.
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?Accept: biological view
Politics: communitarianism, egalitarianism, or libertarianism?Accept: egalitarianismContributive not distributive egalitarianism. And egalitarianism, as I understand it, is an issue in social philosophy, not political philosophy (which concerns questions of coercive power and force).
Proper names: Fregean or Millian?Accept: Millian
Science: scientific realism or scientific anti-realism?Accept another alternativeNatural ontological attitude (NOA).
Teletransporter (new matter): survival or death?Accept: death
Time: A-theory or B-theory?Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Trolley problem (five straight ahead, one on side track, turn requires switching, what ought one do?): switch or don't switch?OtherI don't think intuition-mongering about such imaginary cases is helpful.
Truth: correspondence, deflationary, or epistemic?Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Zombies: inconceivable, conceivable but not metaphysically possible, or metaphysically possible?The question is too unclear to answer