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?Accept: yes
Abstract objects: Platonism or nominalism?Accept: Platonism
Aesthetic value: objective or subjective?Accept: subjective
Analytic-synthetic distinction: yes or no?Accept: yes
Epistemic justification: internalism or externalism?Accept another alternativeI accept coherentism.
External world: idealism, skepticism, or non-skeptical realism?Accept: non-skeptical realism
Free will: compatibilism, libertarianism, or no free will?OtherI believe that people have the ability to make choices between a small number of options. This is similar to what Libet meant by "free won't." I consider this question to be the biggest challenge for those seeking consilience.
God: theism or atheism?Accept another alternativeI accept henotheism.
Knowledge: empiricism or rationalism?Accept: rationalism
Knowledge claims: contextualism, relativism, or invariantism?Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Laws of nature: Humean or non-Humean?Accept: HumeanI see the expression "laws of nature" as outdated; scientists do not speak of the law of relativity or the law of quantum physics. I see "laws of nature" as the mainlines in the program(s) that compute the universe; exceptions can and do exist. These exceptions are very important when trying to develop a coherent view of reality. They are routinely "filtered out" by mainstream scientists as they contradict the invalid ontological assumption that nature is uniform.
Logic: classical or non-classical?Accept: non-classical
Mental content: internalism or externalism?Accept: externalism
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
Moral judgment: cognitivism or non-cognitivism?Lean toward: non-cognitivism
Moral motivation: internalism or externalism?Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Newcomb's problem: one box or two boxes?Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Normative ethics: deontology, consequentialism, or virtue ethics?Accept: deontology
Perceptual experience: disjunctivism, qualia theory, representationalism, or sense-datum theory?Accept: representationalism
Personal identity: biological view, psychological view, or further-fact view?OtherI follow Plato on this question.
Politics: communitarianism, egalitarianism, or libertarianism?Accept: libertarianism
Proper names: Fregean or Millian?Accept: Millian
Science: scientific realism or scientific anti-realism?Accept: scientific anti-realismI believe that digital ontology is key to understanding scientific data. I believe that the computation is external to the universe following Edward Fredkin.
Teletransporter (new matter): survival or death?Accept: survival
Time: A-theory or B-theory?Accept: B-theoryThe End of Time, by Julian Barbour, heavily influenced me in formulating my position on this topic.
Trolley problem (five straight ahead, one on side track, turn requires switching, what ought one do?): switch or don't switch?Agnostic/undecidedThis is a very difficult question for me; I hope that I never have to make such a decision myself.
Truth: correspondence, deflationary, or epistemic?Accept: correspondence
Zombies: inconceivable, conceivable but not metaphysically possible, or metaphysically possible?There is no fact of the matter