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: no | | |
Abstract objects: Platonism or nominalism? | Accept an intermediate view | | |
Aesthetic value: objective or subjective? | Other | dialogical interplay of perceptual, imaginative, culture, earth/world, et al. | |
Analytic-synthetic distinction: yes or no? | Other | reductive alternatives about a richer phenomenon--0ne that is in time and historically unfolding | |
Epistemic justification: internalism or externalism? | Other | reductivve alternatives that miss the phenomenon of learning/knowing | |
External world: idealism, skepticism, or non-skeptical realism? | Other | we are in the world and cannot dount this but what it is in ambiguously rich | |
Free will: compatibilism, libertarianism, or no free will? | Accept: libertarianism | | |
God: theism or atheism? | Reject both | | |
Knowledge: empiricism or rationalism? | Reject both | emergent gestalts that surperceed this dichotomy | |
Knowledge claims: contextualism, relativism, or invariantism? | Other | | |
Laws of nature: Humean or non-Humean? | Other | | |
Logic: classical or non-classical? | The question is too unclear to answer | | |
Mental content: internalism or externalism? | Other | the world speaks in the cpices of silence, but we repsond, name, shape | |
Meta-ethics: moral realism or moral anti-realism? | Other | ambiguously shared structures of culture, history, embodiment, perception, reason | |
Metaphilosophy: naturalism or non-naturalism? | The question is too unclear to answer | | |
Mind: physicalism or non-physicalism? | Reject both | | |
Moral judgment: cognitivism or non-cognitivism? | Other | | |
Moral motivation: internalism or externalism? | Other | we are in an ongpoing assymetical reversiblity with the world | |
Newcomb's problem: one box or two boxes? | Insufficiently familiar with the issue | | |
Normative ethics: deontology, consequentialism, or virtue ethics? | Other | ambigously emergent orders of meaning through perception. emotion, imagination, reason and body in clutural and historical matrix | |
Perceptual experience: disjunctivism, qualia theory, representationalism, or sense-datum theory? | Accept another alternative | innerweltsein | |
Personal identity: biological view, psychological view, or further-fact view? | Other | identity is indeterminate, evolving, has gaps and fissures and is of myriad constinuents, among them biological, psychological, idiosyncratic historical, cultural, historical in shred, intersubjective sense, intersubjective constituted within language and elsewhere, etc. | |
Politics: communitarianism, egalitarianism, or libertarianism? | Lean toward: communitarianism | | |
Proper names: Fregean or Millian? | Reject both | | |
Science: scientific realism or scientific anti-realism? | Reject both | | |
Teletransporter (new matter): survival or death? | Accept: survival | | |
Time: A-theory or B-theory? | Accept an intermediate view | | |
Trolley problem (five straight ahead, one on side track, turn requires switching, what ought one do?): switch or don't switch? | Lean toward: switch | | |
Truth: correspondence, deflationary, or epistemic? | Other | | |
Zombies: inconceivable, conceivable but not metaphysically possible, or metaphysically possible? | Accept: inconceivable | | |