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: no
Abstract objects: Platonism or nominalism?Lean toward: nominalism
Aesthetic value: objective or subjective?Accept another alternativeVariation within and between cultures, but it is not just a matter of personal opinion.
Analytic-synthetic distinction: yes or no?Lean toward: no
Epistemic justification: internalism or externalism?Insufficiently familiar with the issue
External world: idealism, skepticism, or non-skeptical realism?Lean toward: non-skeptical realism
Free will: compatibilism, libertarianism, or no free will?Lean toward: compatibilism
God: theism or atheism?Accept: atheismPresumes we know and agree on what we are talking about when we use the word god. But as the word god is normally used, I accept atheism.
Knowledge: empiricism or rationalism?Lean toward: empiricism
Knowledge claims: contextualism, relativism, or invariantism?Lean toward: contextualismAssuming I understand the terms. But knowledge is relative to the type of justification needed.
Laws of nature: Humean or non-Humean?Lean toward: HumeanOr some other alternative.
Logic: classical or non-classical?Insufficiently familiar with the issueMy guess is that both have utility in proper context.
Mental content: internalism or externalism?Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Meta-ethics: moral realism or moral anti-realism?Lean toward: moral anti-realismAssuming I understand what this mean, probably more like accept moral anti-realism.
Metaphilosophy: naturalism or non-naturalism?Lean toward: naturalism
Mind: physicalism or non-physicalism?Lean toward: physicalism
Moral judgment: cognitivism or non-cognitivism?Insufficiently familiar with the issueUnacquatined with the technical terms, but I worry that cognitive implies that morality is some sort of objective reality rather than relative to the cultural context.
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: consequentialism
Perceptual experience: disjunctivism, qualia theory, representationalism, or sense-datum theory?Reject one or two, undecided between othersReject representationalism. Unacquainted with other technical terms. Data gets synthecised some way.
Personal identity: biological view, psychological view, or further-fact view?Lean toward: biological viewIf by this is meant that our personlity (ego) is the sum total of our biological makeup.
Politics: communitarianism, egalitarianism, or libertarianism?OtherNot acquainted with the technical terms, but a partisan of Western style democracy.
Proper names: Fregean or Millian?Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Science: scientific realism or scientific anti-realism?Lean toward: scientific anti-realism
Teletransporter (new matter): survival or death?Insufficiently familiar with the issue
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?Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Truth: correspondence, deflationary, or epistemic?OtherDefinately not correspondence; more of utilitarian view. Not acquainted with the technical terms of this debate.
Zombies: inconceivable, conceivable but not metaphysically possible, or metaphysically possible?OtherNot sure I care. I will wait until i have to deal with one.