Profile for John Perry

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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Question	Answer	Comments
A priori knowledge: yes or no?	The question is too unclear to answer
Abstract objects: Platonism or nominalism?	Agnostic/undecided
Aesthetic value: objective or subjective?	Lean toward: subjective
Analytic-synthetic distinction: yes or no?	Accept: yes
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: compatibilism
God: theism or atheism?	Accept: atheism
Knowledge: empiricism or rationalism?	Lean toward: empiricism
Knowledge claims: contextualism, relativism, or invariantism?	Accept: contextualism
Laws of nature: Humean or non-Humean?	Lean toward: non-Humean
Logic: classical or non-classical?	Lean toward: non-classical
Mental content: internalism or externalism?	Accept both
Meta-ethics: moral realism or moral anti-realism?	Lean toward: moral anti-realism
Metaphilosophy: naturalism or non-naturalism?	Accept: naturalism
Mind: physicalism or non-physicalism?	Accept: physicalism
Moral judgment: cognitivism or non-cognitivism?	Lean toward: non-cognitivism
Moral motivation: internalism or externalism?	The question is too unclear to answer
Newcomb's problem: one box or two boxes?	Accept: one box
Normative ethics: deontology, consequentialism, or virtue ethics?	Reject one, undecided between others
Perceptual experience: disjunctivism, qualia theory, representationalism, or sense-datum theory?	Lean toward: qualia theory
Personal identity: biological view, psychological view, or further-fact view?	Lean toward: psychological view
Politics: communitarianism, egalitarianism, or libertarianism?	Accept more than one
Proper names: Fregean or Millian?	Accept an intermediate view
Science: scientific realism or scientific anti-realism?	Lean toward: scientific realism
Teletransporter (new matter): survival or death?	Lean toward: survival
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?	Lean toward: switch
Truth: correspondence, deflationary, or epistemic?	Accept: correspondence
Zombies: inconceivable, conceivable but not metaphysically possible, or metaphysically possible?	Lean toward: inconceivable

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