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 another alternative | It is not easy to say so briefly but my approach tries to explain both the perspectives basing each possible concept or idea on the shared activity of culture. | |
Aesthetic value: objective or subjective? | Accept another alternative | cultural | |
Analytic-synthetic distinction: yes or no? | Accept an intermediate view | | |
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 an intermediate view | I have a position based on chaos theory and theory of complexity | |
God: theism or atheism? | Accept another alternative | I wrote a book about that | |
Knowledge: empiricism or rationalism? | Accept another alternative | Are they really alternative? | |
Knowledge claims: contextualism, relativism, or invariantism? | Accept an intermediate view | | |
Laws of nature: Humean or non-Humean? | Accept: non-Humean | | |
Logic: classical or non-classical? | Lean toward: classical | | |
Mental content: internalism or externalism? | Accept: externalism | | |
Meta-ethics: moral realism or moral anti-realism? | Lean toward: moral anti-realism | | |
Metaphilosophy: naturalism or non-naturalism? | Accept: non-naturalism | | |
Mind: physicalism or non-physicalism? | Lean toward: non-physicalism | | |
Moral judgment: cognitivism or non-cognitivism? | Accept an intermediate view | cognitivism is interesting but outdated. | |
Moral motivation: internalism or externalism? | Lean toward: externalism | | |
Newcomb's problem: one box or two boxes? | Accept: two boxes | | |
Normative ethics: deontology, consequentialism, or virtue ethics? | Lean toward: virtue ethics | | |
Perceptual experience: disjunctivism, qualia theory, representationalism, or sense-datum theory? | Lean toward: sense-datum theory | | |
Personal identity: biological view, psychological view, or further-fact view? | Accept another alternative | I wrote a book about it but I cannot resume my position in a statement. | |
Politics: communitarianism, egalitarianism, or libertarianism? | Lean toward: communitarianism | | |
Proper names: Fregean or Millian? | Accept another alternative | They lack a hermeneutic approach: each word has a story to tell (even if it is referred uniquely to the same object). | |
Science: scientific realism or scientific anti-realism? | Accept an intermediate view | I do not refuse completely realism but I accept it just in particular cases at particular conditions | |
Teletransporter (new matter): survival or death? | Accept both | It depends. If they send only information it can be a proliferation of bodies with the same "form". If they send directly atoms it is a normal shipment. | |
Time: A-theory or B-theory? | Lean toward: A-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 | In general switch is more rational. It depends on who is the single one. If he is my son I will save him, if he is a genius, a leader during a war etc. | |
Truth: correspondence, deflationary, or epistemic? | Accept an intermediate view | between correspondence and epistemic | |
Zombies: inconceivable, conceivable but not metaphysically possible, or metaphysically possible? | Accept: conceivable but not metaphysically possible | | |