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.
Question | Answer | Comments | |
A priori knowledge: yes or no? | Agnostic/undecided | | |
Abstract objects: Platonism or nominalism? | Lean toward: nominalism | Often pretend to be a Platonist though. Sometimes get caught up in it. | |
Aesthetic value: objective or subjective? | Lean toward: subjective | | |
Analytic-synthetic distinction: yes or no? | Lean toward: yes | | |
Epistemic justification: internalism or externalism? | The question is too unclear to answer | Is there a single thing here? | |
External world: idealism, skepticism, or non-skeptical realism? | Lean toward: idealism | | |
Free will: compatibilism, libertarianism, or no free will? | Accept: libertarianism | | |
God: theism or atheism? | Accept: theism | | |
Knowledge: empiricism or rationalism? | Agnostic/undecided | | |
Knowledge claims: contextualism, relativism, or invariantism? | Insufficiently familiar with the issue | | |
Laws of nature: Humean or non-Humean? | Agnostic/undecided | | |
Logic: classical or non-classical? | Accept: classical | I do, and I don't. | |
Mental content: internalism or externalism? | Lean toward: internalism | Read Segal's 'A Slim Book on Narrow Content'; if you disagree, read it again. | |
Meta-ethics: moral realism or moral anti-realism? | Accept: moral realism | Parfit knows what matters, pretty much. | |
Metaphilosophy: naturalism or non-naturalism? | Accept: non-naturalism | | |
Mind: physicalism or non-physicalism? | Accept: non-physicalism | Despite the inconceivability of zombies! | |
Moral judgment: cognitivism or non-cognitivism? | Accept: cognitivism | | |
Moral motivation: internalism or externalism? | Lean toward: internalism | Morality is magnetic! | |
Newcomb's problem: one box or two boxes? | Insufficiently familiar with the issue | Isn't there a goat involved in this somewhere? Can I choose the goat? | |
Normative ethics: deontology, consequentialism, or virtue ethics? | Agnostic/undecided | Something along Ross's line strikes me as pretty plausible though. | |
Perceptual experience: disjunctivism, qualia theory, representationalism, or sense-datum theory? | Lean toward: sense-datum theory | | |
Personal identity: biological view, psychological view, or further-fact view? | Accept: further-fact view | Sometimes I pretend there are no people. But even then that might not change the answer. | |
Politics: communitarianism, egalitarianism, or libertarianism? | Insufficiently familiar with the issue | | |
Proper names: Fregean or Millian? | Lean toward: Millian | | |
Science: scientific realism or scientific anti-realism? | Agnostic/undecided | | |
Teletransporter (new matter): survival or death? | Accept an intermediate view | Possibly survive, not necessarily though. | |
Time: A-theory or B-theory? | Agnostic/undecided | | |
Trolley problem (five straight ahead, one on side track, turn requires switching, what ought one do?): switch or don't switch? | Accept: switch | | |
Truth: correspondence, deflationary, or epistemic? | Agnostic/undecided | | |
Zombies: inconceivable, conceivable but not metaphysically possible, or metaphysically possible? | Lean toward: inconceivable | | |