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? | Accept: no | | |
Abstract objects: Platonism or nominalism? | Accept: nominalism | | |
Aesthetic value: objective or subjective? | Reject both | | |
Analytic-synthetic distinction: yes or no? | Accept: no | | |
Epistemic justification: internalism or externalism? | Reject both | Another false dichotomy. | |
External world: idealism, skepticism, or non-skeptical realism? | Other | The way this question is framed misses entirely most of the developments in 20th century linguistic turns. | |
Free will: compatibilism, libertarianism, or no free will? | Lean toward: compatibilism | | |
God: theism or atheism? | Accept: atheism | | |
Knowledge: empiricism or rationalism? | Lean toward: empiricism | | |
Knowledge claims: contextualism, relativism, or invariantism? | Accept: contextualism | | |
Laws of nature: Humean or non-Humean? | Lean toward: Humean | | |
Logic: classical or non-classical? | Reject both | | |
Mental content: internalism or externalism? | Accept another alternative | Freudian. | |
Meta-ethics: moral realism or moral anti-realism? | Reject both | I disagree with these terms entirely. | |
Metaphilosophy: naturalism or non-naturalism? | Lean toward: naturalism | | |
Mind: physicalism or non-physicalism? | Accept another alternative | | |
Moral judgment: cognitivism or non-cognitivism? | Lean toward: non-cognitivism | | |
Moral motivation: internalism or externalism? | Reject both | A false dichotomy. | |
Newcomb's problem: one box or two boxes? | Insufficiently familiar with the issue | | |
Normative ethics: deontology, consequentialism, or virtue ethics? | Reject all | False choices. | |
Perceptual experience: disjunctivism, qualia theory, representationalism, or sense-datum theory? | Reject all | | |
Personal identity: biological view, psychological view, or further-fact view? | Agnostic/undecided | | |
Politics: communitarianism, egalitarianism, or libertarianism? | Other | I tend toward an Arendtian, Deweyan, critical theory, and sort of civic republican view with some psychoanalytic insights too. | |
Proper names: Fregean or Millian? | Accept another alternative | Freudian. | |
Science: scientific realism or scientific anti-realism? | Other | | |
Teletransporter (new matter): survival or death? | Other | This is utterly ridiculous. | |
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? | Reject both | | |
Truth: correspondence, deflationary, or epistemic? | Reject all | Pragmatist. | |
Zombies: inconceivable, conceivable but not metaphysically possible, or metaphysically possible? | Other | Is this a serious question??? | |