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?Lean toward: noIf by "a priori" we mean "pure a priori."
Abstract objects: Platonism or nominalism?Reject bothI talk about that in my currently being written book
Aesthetic value: objective or subjective?Lean toward: subjective
Analytic-synthetic distinction: yes or no?Accept an intermediate viewit depends on the situation
Epistemic justification: internalism or externalism?Lean toward: externalism
External world: idealism, skepticism, or non-skeptical realism?The question is too unclear to answerConflates ontological with epistemological realism and idealism
Free will: compatibilism, libertarianism, or no free will?Reject one, undecided between otherscompatibilism or no free will
God: theism or atheism?Lean toward: atheism
Knowledge: empiricism or rationalism?Lean toward: empiricism
Knowledge claims: contextualism, relativism, or invariantism?Reject one, undecided between otherscontextualism is a kind of relativism
Laws of nature: Humean or non-Humean?Lean toward: non-Humean
Logic: classical or non-classical?Lean toward: non-classicalit depends
Mental content: internalism or externalism?Accept an intermediate view
Meta-ethics: moral realism or moral anti-realism?The question is too unclear to answerthe terms of realism and anti-realism are too problematic
Metaphilosophy: naturalism or non-naturalism?The question is too unclear to answerin the old-fashioned Humean sense naturalism, in the modern physicalistic sense non-naturalism
Mind: physicalism or non-physicalism?Accept: non-physicalism
Moral judgment: cognitivism or non-cognitivism?Accept: cognitivism
Moral motivation: internalism or externalism?Lean toward: internalism
Newcomb's problem: one box or two boxes?Accept: one boxbut there is really no fact of the matter
Normative ethics: deontology, consequentialism, or virtue ethics?Accept an intermediate viewall three aspects apply, but mostly consequentialism
Perceptual experience: disjunctivism, qualia theory, representationalism, or sense-datum theory?Reject allI accept my own Berkelyio-Kantian realist idealism which is both disjunctivist and representationalist, but physical anti-realist.
Personal identity: biological view, psychological view, or further-fact view?Accept: psychological view
Politics: communitarianism, egalitarianism, or libertarianism?Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Proper names: Fregean or Millian?Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Science: scientific realism or scientific anti-realism?The question is too unclear to answerthe terms of realism and anti-realism are too problematic
Teletransporter (new matter): survival or death?There is no fact of the matter
Time: A-theory or B-theory?Reject bothI would probably need to write my own theory of time to explain
Trolley problem (five straight ahead, one on side track, turn requires switching, what ought one do?): switch or don't switch?Accept: switchethics is mainly about consequences, so switch
Truth: correspondence, deflationary, or epistemic?Lean toward: correspondence
Zombies: inconceivable, conceivable but not metaphysically possible, or metaphysically possible?There is no fact of the matter