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: yesAnamesis and inatism are derived from our human condition as a specie.
Abstract objects: Platonism or nominalism?Lean toward: nominalismMeaning comes from thinking.
Aesthetic value: objective or subjective?Accept an intermediate viewThe value of a work of art is independent of my current assessment. And even my interest in a work can be modified according to my research and to awaken new interests.
Analytic-synthetic distinction: yes or no?Lean toward: noSome things we can not conciliate.
Epistemic justification: internalism or externalism?Insufficiently familiar with the issue
External world: idealism, skepticism, or non-skeptical realism?Accept another alternativeLooking for a new way of thinking about the issue, but the authors whom I studied these questions are ambiguous.
Free will: compatibilism, libertarianism, or no free will?Accept an intermediate viewSome kund of things we may choose, others not.
God: theism or atheism?Accept an intermediate viewAs a scientist, I am inclined to atheism, but as an individual I am inclined to trust in God.
Knowledge: empiricism or rationalism?Accept an intermediate viewToward things as they are, or submit things to the test of reason? Both options are somewhere where the thinking happens.
Knowledge claims: contextualism, relativism, or invariantism?Lean toward: contextualismNo one lives alone, we are all in a given society historically determined and varied projects.
Laws of nature: Humean or non-Humean?The question is too unclear to answer
Logic: classical or non-classical?Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Mental content: internalism or externalism?Lean toward: externalismThings exist independently of my will.
Meta-ethics: moral realism or moral anti-realism?Lean toward: moral realism
Metaphilosophy: naturalism or non-naturalism?Accept an intermediate viewIn nature things happen so naturalistic, according to the natural laws discovered, but things happen in science through the scientists.
Mind: physicalism or non-physicalism?Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Moral judgment: cognitivism or non-cognitivism?Accept: cognitivismBroadly trend, increasing and cumulative, it is possible to see the world.
Moral motivation: internalism or externalism?Lean toward: internalismRegardless of hegemonic values in a given society, it is possible to induce individually the value of right and wrong in a given situation.
Newcomb's problem: one box or two boxes?Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Normative ethics: deontology, consequentialism, or virtue ethics?Insufficiently familiar with the issue
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: egalitarianismEquality is a horizon to which a democratic society is to achieve, but it is a fatal error to admit that this equality exists in class society.
Proper names: Fregean or Millian?The question is too unclear to answer
Science: scientific realism or scientific anti-realism?Lean toward: scientific realismWhat is thing in itself?
Teletransporter (new matter): survival or death?There is no fact of the matter
Time: A-theory or B-theory?Insufficiently familiar with the issueAs Kierkegaard said.
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?The question is too unclear to answer
Zombies: inconceivable, conceivable but not metaphysically possible, or metaphysically possible?The question is too unclear to answer