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: yesAs historical a priori
Abstract objects: Platonism or nominalism?Accept both
Aesthetic value: objective or subjective?Accept: subjectiveWithin the given historical a priori
Analytic-synthetic distinction: yes or no?Accept: yes
Epistemic justification: internalism or externalism?Reject both
External world: idealism, skepticism, or non-skeptical realism?Reject all
Free will: compatibilism, libertarianism, or no free will?Reject all
God: theism or atheism?Lean toward: theismWithout assuming monotheism
Knowledge: empiricism or rationalism?Lean toward: rationalism
Knowledge claims: contextualism, relativism, or invariantism?Reject all
Laws of nature: Humean or non-Humean?Accept: non-Humean
Logic: classical or non-classical?Accept both
Mental content: internalism or externalism?Reject bothSterile dichotomy
Meta-ethics: moral realism or moral anti-realism?Reject both
Metaphilosophy: naturalism or non-naturalism?Accept: non-naturalism
Mind: physicalism or non-physicalism?Accept: non-physicalism
Moral judgment: cognitivism or non-cognitivism?Reject both
Moral motivation: internalism or externalism?Reject both
Newcomb's problem: one box or two boxes?Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Normative ethics: deontology, consequentialism, or virtue ethics?Reject all
Perceptual experience: disjunctivism, qualia theory, representationalism, or sense-datum theory?Reject all
Personal identity: biological view, psychological view, or further-fact view?Reject all
Politics: communitarianism, egalitarianism, or libertarianism?Reject allMust start from the thinking but not constitutive subject, and from the problem as posed in Plato's Politicus
Proper names: Fregean or Millian?Reject both
Science: scientific realism or scientific anti-realism?Reject both
Teletransporter (new matter): survival or death?Accept: death
Time: A-theory or B-theory?Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Trolley problem (five straight ahead, one on side track, turn requires switching, what ought one do?): switch or don't switch?Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Truth: correspondence, deflationary, or epistemic?Reject all
Zombies: inconceivable, conceivable but not metaphysically possible, or metaphysically possible?Accept: conceivable but not metaphysically possible