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?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 bothAnother false dichotomy.
External world: idealism, skepticism, or non-skeptical realism?OtherThe 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 alternativeFreudian.
Meta-ethics: moral realism or moral anti-realism?Reject bothI 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 bothA false dichotomy.
Newcomb's problem: one box or two boxes?Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Normative ethics: deontology, consequentialism, or virtue ethics?Reject allFalse 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?OtherI 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 alternativeFreudian.
Science: scientific realism or scientific anti-realism?Other
Teletransporter (new matter): survival or death?OtherThis 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 allPragmatist.
Zombies: inconceivable, conceivable but not metaphysically possible, or metaphysically possible?OtherIs this a serious question???