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?Agnostic/undecided
Abstract objects: Platonism or nominalism?Lean toward: nominalismOften 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 answerIs 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: classicalI do, and I don't.
Mental content: internalism or externalism?Lean toward: internalismRead Segal's 'A Slim Book on Narrow Content'; if you disagree, read it again.
Meta-ethics: moral realism or moral anti-realism?Accept: moral realismParfit knows what matters, pretty much.
Metaphilosophy: naturalism or non-naturalism?Accept: non-naturalism
Mind: physicalism or non-physicalism?Accept: non-physicalismDespite the inconceivability of zombies!
Moral judgment: cognitivism or non-cognitivism?Accept: cognitivism
Moral motivation: internalism or externalism?Lean toward: internalismMorality is magnetic!
Newcomb's problem: one box or two boxes?Insufficiently familiar with the issueIsn't there a goat involved in this somewhere? Can I choose the goat?
Normative ethics: deontology, consequentialism, or virtue ethics?Agnostic/undecidedSomething 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 viewSometimes 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 viewPossibly 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