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?There is no fact of the matterLean toward ontological relativity depending on conceptual scheme.
Aesthetic value: objective or subjective?Agnostic/undecided
Analytic-synthetic distinction: yes or no?Agnostic/undecidedI actually lean toward a yes, but I am still chewing on Quine's two dogmas.
Epistemic justification: internalism or externalism?Lean toward: externalism
External world: idealism, skepticism, or non-skeptical realism?OtherWent from skeptical realist to considering Putnam's quasi-kantian internal realism. That's where I am now.
Free will: compatibilism, libertarianism, or no free will?Lean toward: compatibilism
God: theism or atheism?Agnostic/undecidedUsed to be a theist. Rethinking the matter now.
Knowledge: empiricism or rationalism?Accept an intermediate view
Knowledge claims: contextualism, relativism, or invariantism?Agnostic/undecided
Laws of nature: Humean or non-Humean?Agnostic/undecided
Logic: classical or non-classical?Agnostic/undecided
Mental content: internalism or externalism?Lean toward: externalismthanks to Putnam.
Meta-ethics: moral realism or moral anti-realism?Accept an intermediate viewLean toward believing some moral views are objective, but that has nothing to do with moral facts somewhere in Platonic heaven.
Metaphilosophy: naturalism or non-naturalism?Lean toward: non-naturalism
Mind: physicalism or non-physicalism?Lean toward: non-physicalismCertainly no dualist, but find mere physicalism problematic.
Moral judgment: cognitivism or non-cognitivism?Accept an intermediate viewMore than "Accept" I would say lean to recognizing the cogntive and the affective simultaneously.
Moral motivation: internalism or externalism?Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Newcomb's problem: one box or two boxes?Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Normative ethics: deontology, consequentialism, or virtue ethics?Accept more than oneMy intuitions send me somewhere between virtue and deontological approaches.
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?Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Politics: communitarianism, egalitarianism, or libertarianism?Lean toward: egalitarianismCommunitarianism seems to have its charms too, but I have no patience for libertariannism.
Proper names: Fregean or Millian?Agnostic/undecidedUsed to like a Kripkean causal approach, but I am no longer sure.
Science: scientific realism or scientific anti-realism?Lean toward: scientific anti-realismLeaning toward a scientific anti-realism in so far as the underdetermination of data holds. But there would still be more or less rational schemes one can adopt depending on one's interests.
Teletransporter (new matter): survival or death?Insufficiently familiar with the issueI haven't given enough thought to this one.
Time: A-theory or B-theory?Agnostic/undecidedI have strong presentist tendencies but I haven't decided.
Trolley problem (five straight ahead, one on side track, turn requires switching, what ought one do?): switch or don't switch?Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Truth: correspondence, deflationary, or epistemic?OtherLeaning toward Putnam's truth as rational acceptability under idealized epistemic conditions.
Zombies: inconceivable, conceivable but not metaphysically possible, or metaphysically possible?Agnostic/undecided