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?Skip
Abstract objects: Platonism or nominalism?Skip
Aesthetic value: objective or subjective?Skip
Analytic-synthetic distinction: yes or no?Accept: yes
Epistemic justification: internalism or externalism?Skip
External world: idealism, skepticism, or non-skeptical realism?Skip
Free will: compatibilism, libertarianism, or no free will?Lean toward: compatibilism
God: theism or atheism?Accept: theism
Knowledge: empiricism or rationalism?Skip
Knowledge claims: contextualism, relativism, or invariantism?Skip
Laws of nature: Humean or non-Humean?Accept: non-Humean
Logic: classical or non-classical?Lean toward: classical
Mental content: internalism or externalism?Skip
Meta-ethics: moral realism or moral anti-realism?Accept: moral realism
Metaphilosophy: naturalism or non-naturalism?Skip
Mind: physicalism or non-physicalism?Skip
Moral judgment: cognitivism or non-cognitivism?Accept: cognitivism
Moral motivation: internalism or externalism?Skip
Newcomb's problem: one box or two boxes?Skip
Normative ethics: deontology, consequentialism, or virtue ethics?Accept more than oneI don't think it really works, but I would like to believe in an inviolable Kantian framework, within the constraints of which one should do the sorts of things a good person would, and within the constraints of acting as a good person would, one should maximize happiness and minimize pain. Again, I think there are problems with the view, but it would be nice if it were true.
Perceptual experience: disjunctivism, qualia theory, representationalism, or sense-datum theory?Skip
Personal identity: biological view, psychological view, or further-fact view?Skip
Politics: communitarianism, egalitarianism, or libertarianism?Accept another alternativeAnarchist. I don't think the existence of a government as we normally conceive of it can be morally justified.
Proper names: Fregean or Millian?Skip
Science: scientific realism or scientific anti-realism?Skip
Teletransporter (new matter): survival or death?Accept: death
Time: A-theory or B-theory?Skip
Trolley problem (five straight ahead, one on side track, turn requires switching, what ought one do?): switch or don't switch?Lean toward: don't switch
Truth: correspondence, deflationary, or epistemic?Skip
Zombies: inconceivable, conceivable but not metaphysically possible, or metaphysically possible?Skip