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? | Lean toward: no | | |
Abstract objects: Platonism or nominalism? | Lean toward: nominalism | | |
Aesthetic value: objective or subjective? | Accept another alternative | Variation 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: atheism | Presumes 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: contextualism | Assuming I understand the terms. But knowledge is relative to the type of justification needed. | |
Laws of nature: Humean or non-Humean? | Lean toward: Humean | Or some other alternative. | |
Logic: classical or non-classical? | Insufficiently familiar with the issue | My 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-realism | Assuming 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 issue | Unacquatined 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 others | Reject representationalism. Unacquainted with other technical terms. Data gets synthecised some way. | |
Personal identity: biological view, psychological view, or further-fact view? | Lean toward: biological view | If by this is meant that our personlity (ego) is the sum total of our biological makeup. | |
Politics: communitarianism, egalitarianism, or libertarianism? | Other | Not 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? | Other | Definately 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? | Other | Not sure I care. I will wait until i have to deal with one. | |