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 | Do i make assumptions - yes! Read the intoduction to a 1920s popular Christian book Kennedy, state we all make assumptin and if we dont make them we should kill ourselves | |
Abstract objects: Platonism or nominalism? | Accept: Platonism | Abstract objects - the shadows on the wall in the cabe allorgy... I assume that is not true but abstract ideas do have a reality independent of the individual | |
Aesthetic value: objective or subjective? | Lean toward: subjective | Beauty might be in the eye of the beholder but we all agre that somethings are truly ugly. | |
Analytic-synthetic distinction: yes or no? | Insufficiently familiar with the issue | I can guess what analytic-synthetic distiction is but it would be a guess | |
Epistemic justification: internalism or externalism? | Insufficiently familiar with the issue | same as previous answer | |
External world: idealism, skepticism, or non-skeptical realism? | Accept: non-skeptical realism | I make the assumption that i live in the real world and not the platonic shadows on the wall ... I have no proof to offer | |
Free will: compatibilism, libertarianism, or no free will? | Lean toward: compatibilism | I am presuming campatibilism means each other choices affects ours. However, we do have choices but some have been made for us by God (nature) or others. I like Marx's - we make our own history but we do not choose how we make it .. the circumstances are choosen for us by history. Note the word marx uses was 'we' not 'I'... our indivisual free will is made in a community context | |
God: theism or atheism? | Accept: theism | | |
Knowledge: empiricism or rationalism? | Accept another alternative | Knowledge is by revelation. Some things can be deduced by reason but they are not universal | |
Knowledge claims: contextualism, relativism, or invariantism? | Accept more than one | In the law, I hope a Judge decides if the Rules (invariantism, I presume) according to the context in which the crime was committed.
I also accept a situational ethic that depends on context.
I aso have elements of relativism in me. I believe in absolute truth. That truth is not a preposition but a person - Jesus Christ. All other so called truths are relative... | |
Laws of nature: Humean or non-Humean? | Accept: non-Humean | I think David Hue thought that the laws of nature were some absolute laws... I disagree. They are like the doctrines of the Church - they are a hman construct of the a reality beyond human understanding. | |
Logic: classical or non-classical? | Insufficiently familiar with the issue | I would not know what classical or non-classical logic was | |
Mental content: internalism or externalism? | Insufficiently familiar with the issue | mental content - what we think ... it is a bit of both ,,, but i am out of my depth here
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Meta-ethics: moral realism or moral anti-realism? | The question is too unclear to answer | What is meta-ethics? Or anti-realism? | |
Metaphilosophy: naturalism or non-naturalism? | Accept: non-naturalism | I believe in a intervening God. However, if some say this or that is an act of God I immediately look for a naturalistic explanation. If I cannot find one, I wonder if it is chance or the faux 'god of the gaps'. | |
Mind: physicalism or non-physicalism? | Lean toward: non-physicalism | If by the question you are asking are there only naturalistic understanding to thought ... no | |
Moral judgment: cognitivism or non-cognitivism? | Lean toward: non-cognitivism | Sometimes thought is required ,,,but many of my best moral decisions have been made without amoments thought. May my previous thought has prepared me but i think it more than that | |
Moral motivation: internalism or externalism? | Accept both | moral motivation comes from both internal and external sources | |
Newcomb's problem: one box or two boxes? | Insufficiently familiar with the issue | I don't know what Newcomb's Boxes ar, of the top of my head
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Normative ethics: deontology, consequentialism, or virtue ethics? | Lean toward: virtue ethics | I do accept the validity of all three ,,, I lean toward virtues ..rule are required and the consequense must be taken into account | |
Perceptual experience: disjunctivism, qualia theory, representationalism, or sense-datum theory? | Insufficiently familiar with the issue | What???? qualia theory i have never heard of ,,, and the others I can guess at their definitions... but then to take a position... i am not that brave... I have been that brave with some issues here ,,,but i need to draw the line | |
Personal identity: biological view, psychological view, or further-fact view? | Insufficiently familiar with the issue | what is a further fact view ,,,, and the latter two are part of my identity whether i know it or not | |
Politics: communitarianism, egalitarianism, or libertarianism? | Accept more than one | I think I could define the terms so that i can accept all three. | |
Proper names: Fregean or Millian? | The question is too unclear to answer | | |
Science: scientific realism or scientific anti-realism? | The question is too unclear to answer | the terms are unclear,,, I do not understand what is meant by scientific anti-realism. | |
Teletransporter (new matter): survival or death? | There is no fact of the matter | I thought that Teletransporter is a work of fiction. It is whatever the author makes it to be. | |
Time: A-theory or B-theory? | The question is too unclear to answer | What is b or a theory | |
Trolley problem (five straight ahead, one on side track, turn requires switching, what ought one do?): switch or don't switch? | Lean toward: switch | it like lining up at traffic lights - it does fail occationally | |
Truth: correspondence, deflationary, or epistemic? | Accept another alternative | As I said ...truth is a person - Jesus Christ - everything else is relative. However, i don't understand the terms | |
Zombies: inconceivable, conceivable but not metaphysically possible, or metaphysically possible? | Agnostic/undecided | I dont care enought to even think about it - so what is a zombie besides the living dead of Sci-fi films | |