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?The question is too unclear to answer
Abstract objects: Platonism or nominalism?Lean toward: nominalism
Aesthetic value: objective or subjective?Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Analytic-synthetic distinction: yes or no?Accept: no
Epistemic justification: internalism or externalism?Lean toward: externalism
External world: idealism, skepticism, or non-skeptical realism?Lean toward: non-skeptical realism
Free will: compatibilism, libertarianism, or no free will?Accept another alternativeNondeterminist, no opinion on the relevant counterfactuals of the form `If determinism were true, then ...'
God: theism or atheism?Lean toward: atheism
Knowledge: empiricism or rationalism?Accept: empiricism
Knowledge claims: contextualism, relativism, or invariantism?Accept: contextualism
Laws of nature: Humean or non-Humean?Accept: Humean
Logic: classical or non-classical?Accept: classical
Mental content: internalism or externalism?Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Meta-ethics: moral realism or moral anti-realism?Accept an intermediate viewConstructivism (Rawls/Dewey/Wong)
Metaphilosophy: naturalism or non-naturalism?Accept: naturalism
Mind: physicalism or non-physicalism?Lean toward: physicalism
Moral judgment: cognitivism or non-cognitivism?Accept: cognitivism
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 another alternativeDewey's view: all three are legitimate and play a role in normative decision-making, but cover different aspects of our actions
Perceptual experience: disjunctivism, qualia theory, representationalism, or sense-datum theory?Reject all
Personal identity: biological view, psychological view, or further-fact view?Accept an intermediate viewContextualism: in different conversational and practical contexts, different standards will be appropriate
Politics: communitarianism, egalitarianism, or libertarianism?Accept more than oneEither egalitarian liberalism heavily influenced by communitarianism or vice-versa.
Proper names: Fregean or Millian?Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Science: scientific realism or scientific anti-realism?Agnostic/undecided
Teletransporter (new matter): survival or death?Accept an intermediate viewDifferent, equally valid intuitions about personal identity lead to different, equally valid criteria of personal identity that diverge in teletransporter cases: death by some standards of PI, survival by others.
Time: A-theory or B-theory?Lean toward: B-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
Truth: correspondence, deflationary, or epistemic?Accept: correspondence
Zombies: inconceivable, conceivable but not metaphysically possible, or metaphysically possible?Lean toward: metaphysically possibleNo such thing as qualia, hence we *are* zombies, hence zombies are possible.