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? | Lean toward: yes | | |
Abstract objects: Platonism or nominalism? | Accept: nominalism | on grounds that Platonic forms are tautological propositions. | |
Aesthetic value: objective or subjective? | Accept: subjective | | |
Analytic-synthetic distinction: yes or no? | Insufficiently familiar with the issue | | |
Epistemic justification: internalism or externalism? | Insufficiently familiar with the issue | | |
External world: idealism, skepticism, or non-skeptical realism? | Lean toward: non-skeptical realism | It is the outlook that is evolutionarily beneficial. | |
Free will: compatibilism, libertarianism, or no free will? | Lean toward: libertarianism | | |
God: theism or atheism? | Lean toward: theism | Impersonal Potentiality. | |
Knowledge: empiricism or rationalism? | Lean toward: rationalism | | |
Knowledge claims: contextualism, relativism, or invariantism? | Lean toward: contextualism | | |
Laws of nature: Humean or non-Humean? | Accept another alternative | Some idea analogous to philosophical daoism... but this claim ideal is tautological in and of itself... | |
Logic: classical or non-classical? | Insufficiently familiar with the issue | | |
Mental content: internalism or externalism? | Lean toward: internalism | | |
Meta-ethics: moral realism or moral anti-realism? | Lean toward: moral anti-realism | despite their unreality, some moral constructs are of necessity. | |
Metaphilosophy: naturalism or non-naturalism? | Lean toward: naturalism | | |
Mind: physicalism or non-physicalism? | Lean toward: physicalism | | |
Moral judgment: cognitivism or non-cognitivism? | Lean toward: cognitivism | | |
Moral motivation: internalism or externalism? | Accept an intermediate view | | |
Newcomb's problem: one box or two boxes? | Lean toward: one box | | |
Normative ethics: deontology, consequentialism, or virtue ethics? | Lean toward: consequentialism | | |
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 an intermediate view | in that personal identity is more or less a word that describes some combination of psychological and biological. | |
Politics: communitarianism, egalitarianism, or libertarianism? | The question is too unclear to answer | Libertarian ideals cannot work in modern society... and neither can a communal approach.
Egalitarianism is the most likely to function on a large scale political system.
With that said, I would prefer the disconnect of libertarianism over the a cohesive society organism created by egalitarianism.
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Proper names: Fregean or Millian? | Insufficiently familiar with the issue | | |
Science: scientific realism or scientific anti-realism? | Lean toward: scientific realism | Science is self-correcting analytic system that can explain causal relations of some phenomena x to some other phenomena y, but there is no unifying theory. The only way to describe that which Is is to simply acknowledge that which Is as it Is. | |
Teletransporter (new matter): survival or death? | Insufficiently familiar with the issue | | |
Time: A-theory or B-theory? | Accept another alternative | | |
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? | Insufficiently familiar with the issue | | |
Zombies: inconceivable, conceivable but not metaphysically possible, or metaphysically possible? | Accept: metaphysically possible | | |