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?OtherI think the distinction between a priori and a posteriori is untenable on the version of naturalism I hold.
Abstract objects: Platonism or nominalism?Lean toward: nominalism
Aesthetic value: objective or subjective?OtherI take a largely deflationary view on the subjective/objective distinction: Each is a (sometimes) useful abstraction from the other.
Analytic-synthetic distinction: yes or no?Lean toward: noMeaning-as-use makes analyticity conventional and sensitive to context.
Epistemic justification: internalism or externalism?Accept bothI'm a pluralist about this issue (and many others): It is sometimes useful, and sometimes not, to factor in external factors while assessing justification.
External world: idealism, skepticism, or non-skeptical realism?Accept an intermediate view
Free will: compatibilism, libertarianism, or no free will?Accept: compatibilism
God: theism or atheism?Accept an intermediate viewI lean towards some form of pantheism or panentheism
Knowledge: empiricism or rationalism?Accept an intermediate view
Knowledge claims: contextualism, relativism, or invariantism?Lean toward: contextualism
Laws of nature: Humean or non-Humean?Agnostic/undecided
Logic: classical or non-classical?Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Mental content: internalism or externalism?Accept an intermediate viewPragmatism in ascribing content, hence pluralism mediated by purposes for doing so.
Meta-ethics: moral realism or moral anti-realism?Accept an intermediate view
Metaphilosophy: naturalism or non-naturalism?Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Mind: physicalism or non-physicalism?Accept an intermediate viewLean toward neutral or dual-aspect monism
Moral judgment: cognitivism or non-cognitivism?Accept both
Moral motivation: internalism or externalism?Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Newcomb's problem: one box or two boxes?Accept: one boxEnjoy your small payoff, two-boxers!
Normative ethics: deontology, consequentialism, or virtue ethics?Accept more than one
Perceptual experience: disjunctivism, qualia theory, representationalism, or sense-datum theory?Agnostic/undecided
Personal identity: biological view, psychological view, or further-fact view?Accept: psychological view
Politics: communitarianism, egalitarianism, or libertarianism?Agnostic/undecided
Proper names: Fregean or Millian?Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Science: scientific realism or scientific anti-realism?Accept: scientific anti-realism
Teletransporter (new matter): survival or death?Accept: survivalPersonal identity as memory, character, etc.
Time: A-theory or B-theory?Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Trolley problem (five straight ahead, one on side track, turn requires switching, what ought one do?): switch or don't switch?Lean toward: don't switch
Truth: correspondence, deflationary, or epistemic?Lean toward: deflationary
Zombies: inconceivable, conceivable but not metaphysically possible, or metaphysically possible?Accept: conceivable but not metaphysically possible