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: yes | Else broad skepticism. | |
Abstract objects: Platonism or nominalism? | Other | Conceptualism!!!! For crying out loud! How is that not on the list?! | |
Aesthetic value: objective or subjective? | Accept: objective | | |
Analytic-synthetic distinction: yes or no? | Accept: yes | Sorry Willard. | |
Epistemic justification: internalism or externalism? | Accept: internalism | Don't even get me started... #Fumerton | |
External world: idealism, skepticism, or non-skeptical realism? | Accept: non-skeptical realism | Wish I could be an idealist. Find it very plausible. | |
Free will: compatibilism, libertarianism, or no free will? | Accept: libertarianism | More clear to me than any other philosophical thesis, perhaps more than any thesis of any kind (yes, even more than the cogito). | |
God: theism or atheism? | Accept: theism | | |
Knowledge: empiricism or rationalism? | Accept both | Or reject both, depending on definition. Bonjour kind of view. | |
Knowledge claims: contextualism, relativism, or invariantism? | Accept: invariantism | Don't even get me started. | |
Laws of nature: Humean or non-Humean? | Accept: non-Humean | Universals baby! | |
Logic: classical or non-classical? | Lean toward: non-classical | | |
Mental content: internalism or externalism? | Accept: internalism | Narrow content...i.e....content. | |
Meta-ethics: moral realism or moral anti-realism? | Accept: moral realism | | |
Metaphilosophy: naturalism or non-naturalism? | Accept: non-naturalism | | |
Mind: physicalism or non-physicalism? | Accept: non-physicalism | Probably a substance dualist, but maybe only a property dualist. Depends on how one is thinking about it. I'm fine with being a substance dualist though. | |
Moral judgment: cognitivism or non-cognitivism? | Accept: cognitivism | | |
Moral motivation: internalism or externalism? | Accept: internalism | Firmly. | |
Newcomb's problem: one box or two boxes? | Accept: one box | Proving democracy is not always right! | |
Normative ethics: deontology, consequentialism, or virtue ethics? | Lean toward: consequentialism | Though a very broad-based one. For example, the exemplification of virtues has very, very high intrinsic value. I think a humane axiology can get you a humane consequentialism. | |
Perceptual experience: disjunctivism, qualia theory, representationalism, or sense-datum theory? | Other | Bad partition. Mike Huemer has it right. Chisholmian. | |
Personal identity: biological view, psychological view, or further-fact view? | Lean toward: biological view | In that I am an animalist. But I take this to be consistent with the fact that I am a substance dualist. | |
Politics: communitarianism, egalitarianism, or libertarianism? | Other | Probably an anarchist. Definitely one on some seemingly standard definitions. | |
Proper names: Fregean or Millian? | Accept an intermediate view | At least a guise or something. Tend to be Fregean, but these terms seem to have shifted a bit recently. Definitely like the Fregean view if I had to choose. | |
Science: scientific realism or scientific anti-realism? | Accept: scientific realism | Or go home. | |
Teletransporter (new matter): survival or death? | Accept: survival | | |
Time: A-theory or B-theory? | Accept: B-theory | B-theory gets an "A" in being right. | |
Trolley problem (five straight ahead, one on side track, turn requires switching, what ought one do?): switch or don't switch? | Accept: switch | Gotta do it, man. Just gotta. | |
Truth: correspondence, deflationary, or epistemic? | Accept more than one | I'm inclined to think CT properly understood is not so inflated. | |
Zombies: inconceivable, conceivable but not metaphysically possible, or metaphysically possible? | Accept: metaphysically possible | | |