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 an intermediate view
Abstract objects: Platonism or nominalism?Accept: nominalism
Aesthetic value: objective or subjective?Accept an intermediate view
Analytic-synthetic distinction: yes or no?Accept an intermediate view
Epistemic justification: internalism or externalism?Accept an intermediate view
External world: idealism, skepticism, or non-skeptical realism?Accept an intermediate view
Free will: compatibilism, libertarianism, or no free will?Accept an intermediate viewDepends on what perspective we are talking about. From third person perspective (objective): No free will. The chain of causality rules that out. From first person perspective (subjective): Compatibilism. The whole life of subjects is causally determined and subjects might be aware of that but still subjects appear to feel, act and percieve their lifes as if they had a free will. Therefore from the subjects point of view, free will seems compatible with causal determination.
God: theism or atheism?Accept an intermediate view
Knowledge: empiricism or rationalism?Accept an intermediate view
Knowledge claims: contextualism, relativism, or invariantism?Accept an intermediate view
Laws of nature: Humean or non-Humean?Accept: Humean
Logic: classical or non-classical?Accept an intermediate view
Mental content: internalism or externalism?Accept an intermediate view
Meta-ethics: moral realism or moral anti-realism?Accept an intermediate view
Metaphilosophy: naturalism or non-naturalism?Accept: naturalism
Mind: physicalism or non-physicalism?Accept: physicalism
Moral judgment: cognitivism or non-cognitivism?Accept: cognitivism
Moral motivation: internalism or externalism?Accept an intermediate view
Newcomb's problem: one box or two boxes?Accept an intermediate view
Normative ethics: deontology, consequentialism, or virtue ethics?Accept an intermediate view
Perceptual experience: disjunctivism, qualia theory, representationalism, or sense-datum theory?Accept an intermediate view
Personal identity: biological view, psychological view, or further-fact view?Accept: further-fact viewAgain, this depends on what the criteria for personal identity is in the context discussed. So if the further-fact consists of a criteria for personal identity then I hold a further-fact view. If further-fact view has some other meaning I accept an intermediate view.
Politics: communitarianism, egalitarianism, or libertarianism?Accept an intermediate view
Proper names: Fregean or Millian?Accept an intermediate view
Science: scientific realism or scientific anti-realism?Accept: scientific realism
Teletransporter (new matter): survival or death?The question is too unclear to answerDepends on the criteria for survival. E.g. Numerical identity criteria, continuity of consiusness criteria, Property identity et.c. If the only requirement for survival is that the new matter has identical properties as the old matter then the answer will be: survival. If numerical identity and continuity of consiousness is required for survival then the answer is: death.
Time: A-theory or B-theory?Accept an intermediate view
Trolley problem (five straight ahead, one on side track, turn requires switching, what ought one do?): switch or don't switch?Lean toward: switch
Truth: correspondence, deflationary, or epistemic?Accept an intermediate view
Zombies: inconceivable, conceivable but not metaphysically possible, or metaphysically possible?Accept: inconceivable