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: no
Abstract objects: Platonism or nominalism?Accept another alternativeWhy are you omitting conceptualism? Do you think that's just like choices 2 and 4? Bad question as formulated.
Aesthetic value: objective or subjective?Accept: objective
Analytic-synthetic distinction: yes or no?Accept: yes
Epistemic justification: internalism or externalism?Accept: internalism
External world: idealism, skepticism, or non-skeptical realism?Accept: non-skeptical realism
Free will: compatibilism, libertarianism, or no free will?Lean toward: compatibilism
God: theism or atheism?Accept: atheism
Knowledge: empiricism or rationalism?Accept: rationalism
Knowledge claims: contextualism, relativism, or invariantism?Accept: contextualism
Laws of nature: Humean or non-Humean?Accept: non-Humean
Logic: classical or non-classical?Accept: classical
Mental content: internalism or externalism?The question is too unclear to answer
Meta-ethics: moral realism or moral anti-realism?Accept: moral realism
Metaphilosophy: naturalism or non-naturalism?Accept bothAs the issues change the metaphilosophical view changes - this is not metaphysics - its a grab bag [I'm one of the founding editors of the journal, and I know.
Mind: physicalism or non-physicalism?Accept: physicalism
Moral judgment: cognitivism or non-cognitivism?Accept: cognitivism
Moral motivation: internalism or externalism?Accept: internalism
Newcomb's problem: one box or two boxes?There is no fact of the matter
Normative ethics: deontology, consequentialism, or virtue ethics?Accept: deontology
Perceptual experience: disjunctivism, qualia theory, representationalism, or sense-datum theory?Agnostic/undecided
Personal identity: biological view, psychological view, or further-fact view?Accept more than one
Politics: communitarianism, egalitarianism, or libertarianism?Accept more than oneLibertarianism is a kind of egalitarianism; there are different issues involved.
Proper names: Fregean or Millian?Accept: FregeanI don't think this is well-formulated. NonFregeans are not all Millians.
Science: scientific realism or scientific anti-realism?Accept: scientific realism
Teletransporter (new matter): survival or death?Accept: death
Time: A-theory or B-theory?The question is too unclear to answerThis is such a poorly framed question one can't really make out what the framers were thinklng. Suppose I asked you about the spaciality of souls without your knowing that they exist.
Trolley problem (five straight ahead, one on side track, turn requires switching, what ought one do?): switch or don't switch?Agnostic/undecided
Truth: correspondence, deflationary, or epistemic?Lean toward: correspondenceNo non-correspondence view is consistent with either our intuitions or how we operate in the world. Were an adequate other view to surface perhaps I might revise my view.
Zombies: inconceivable, conceivable but not metaphysically possible, or metaphysically possible?Accept: inconceivable