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: yes | The Synthetic a priori requires further analysis. | |
Abstract objects: Platonism or nominalism? | Other | An Aristotelian substance like basis which is drawn from the global experience of the individual. | |
Aesthetic value: objective or subjective? | Accept: subjective | | |
Analytic-synthetic distinction: yes or no? | Accept: yes | | |
Epistemic justification: internalism or externalism? | Lean toward: externalism | | |
External world: idealism, skepticism, or non-skeptical realism? | Lean toward: non-skeptical realism | A critical approach to 'reality'. | |
Free will: compatibilism, libertarianism, or no free will? | Other | I 'believe' that free will is something that one can aspire to have, and can be obtained only within specific kinds of choices of a metaphysical or 'spiritual' nature. | |
God: theism or atheism? | Accept both | I accept both an-a-logy and the-o-logy!!!!! Metaphor and Identity thesis. | |
Knowledge: empiricism or rationalism? | Accept both | | |
Knowledge claims: contextualism, relativism, or invariantism? | Accept: contextualism | | |
Laws of nature: Humean or non-Humean? | Accept both | | |
Logic: classical or non-classical? | Accept both | | |
Mental content: internalism or externalism? | Lean toward: internalism | | |
Meta-ethics: moral realism or moral anti-realism? | Lean toward: moral realism | | |
Metaphilosophy: naturalism or non-naturalism? | Lean toward: non-naturalism | | |
Mind: physicalism or non-physicalism? | Accept both | | |
Moral judgment: cognitivism or non-cognitivism? | Lean toward: cognitivism | | |
Moral motivation: internalism or externalism? | Accept both | | |
Newcomb's problem: one box or two boxes? | Insufficiently familiar with the issue | Would want a 'concrete' instance. | |
Normative ethics: deontology, consequentialism, or virtue ethics? | Accept more than one | The divisions are not contradictory but define different 'areas' of practical reason. | |
Perceptual experience: disjunctivism, qualia theory, representationalism, or sense-datum theory? | Accept more than one | | |
Personal identity: biological view, psychological view, or further-fact view? | Accept more than one | | |
Politics: communitarianism, egalitarianism, or libertarianism? | Insufficiently familiar with the issue | | |
Proper names: Fregean or Millian? | Insufficiently familiar with the issue | Have read up only on a bit of Frege. | |
Science: scientific realism or scientific anti-realism? | Insufficiently familiar with the issue | | |
Teletransporter (new matter): survival or death? | The question is too unclear to answer | | |
Time: A-theory or B-theory? | Insufficiently familiar with the issue | There are many possible approaches to an understanding of what constitutes time; and many 'levels' of comprehension, analysis, and kinds of experience of time. | |
Trolley problem (five straight ahead, one on side track, turn requires switching, what ought one do?): switch or don't switch? | The question is too unclear to answer | | |
Truth: correspondence, deflationary, or epistemic? | Accept more than one | | |
Zombies: inconceivable, conceivable but not metaphysically possible, or metaphysically possible? | Insufficiently familiar with the issue | | |