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?Lean toward: yes
Abstract objects: Platonism or nominalism?Accept an intermediate view
Aesthetic value: objective or subjective?Accept: subjective
Analytic-synthetic distinction: yes or no?Accept: yes
Epistemic justification: internalism or externalism?Accept: externalism
External world: idealism, skepticism, or non-skeptical realism?Lean toward: non-skeptical realismI accept non-skeptical realism, but even so I think it is important to try to beat the skpetic.
Free will: compatibilism, libertarianism, or no free will?Accept: no free willcausality makes impossible for anyone to do otherwise.
God: theism or atheism?Agnostic/undecidedI reject theism but I am not an atheist; I am a weak agnostic.
Knowledge: empiricism or rationalism?Lean toward: rationalism
Knowledge claims: contextualism, relativism, or invariantism?Lean toward: invariantism
Laws of nature: Humean or non-Humean?Accept: non-HumeanLaws are independent objects (independent metaphysical substract).
Logic: classical or non-classical?Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Mental content: internalism or externalism?Lean toward: externalismWittgenstein showed us the problem with the private speaker, but there is something private we have in mind (even if there is no effect to communication).
Meta-ethics: moral realism or moral anti-realism?Accept: moral anti-realismThere are no real moral facts.
Metaphilosophy: naturalism or non-naturalism?Lean toward: naturalismBut we have to think that the imateriality of the mind is part of the natural world, as anything there is.
Mind: physicalism or non-physicalism?Lean toward: physicalismI do accept a kind of supervenience physicalism but I also accept that the mind is somehow imaterial.
Moral judgment: cognitivism or non-cognitivism?Lean toward: non-cognitivismIf we are determinist and an error theorist (as I am), we have to see the ethics as nothing more than influence on behaviour, and values as entities that do not exist in the world.
Moral motivation: internalism or externalism?Accept: internalism
Newcomb's problem: one box or two boxes?Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Normative ethics: deontology, consequentialism, or virtue ethics?There is no fact of the matter
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 more than one
Politics: communitarianism, egalitarianism, or libertarianism?Lean toward: egalitarianism
Proper names: Fregean or Millian?Accept: Fregean
Science: scientific realism or scientific anti-realism?Lean toward: scientific realism
Teletransporter (new matter): survival or death?Accept: death
Time: A-theory or B-theory?Lean toward: A-theoryI am tempted to accept presentism.
Trolley problem (five straight ahead, one on side track, turn requires switching, what ought one do?): switch or don't switch?There is no fact of the matter
Truth: correspondence, deflationary, or epistemic?Accept more than oneA deflationary theory for some cases and a correspondence theory for the most part of cases.
Zombies: inconceivable, conceivable but not metaphysically possible, or metaphysically possible?Accept: conceivable but not metaphysically possible