Profile for David Chalmers

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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Question	Answer	Comments
A priori knowledge: yes or no?	Accept: yes
Abstract objects: Platonism or nominalism?	There is no fact of the matter
Aesthetic value: objective or subjective?	Accept: subjective
Analytic-synthetic distinction: yes or no?	Lean toward: yes
Epistemic justification: internalism or externalism?	Lean toward: internalism
External world: idealism, skepticism, or non-skeptical realism?	Accept: non-skeptical realism
Free will: compatibilism, libertarianism, or no free will?	Lean toward: compatibilism
God: theism or atheism?	Lean toward: atheism
Knowledge: empiricism or rationalism?	Accept: rationalism
Knowledge claims: contextualism, relativism, or invariantism?	Lean toward: contextualism
Laws of nature: Humean or non-Humean?	Accept: non-Humean
Logic: classical or non-classical?	Accept both
Mental content: internalism or externalism?	Accept: internalism
Meta-ethics: moral realism or moral anti-realism?	Lean toward: moral anti-realism
Metaphilosophy: naturalism or non-naturalism?	The question is too unclear to answer
Mind: physicalism or non-physicalism?	Accept: non-physicalism
Moral judgment: cognitivism or non-cognitivism?	Lean toward: cognitivism
Moral motivation: internalism or externalism?	Lean toward: internalism
Newcomb's problem: one box or two boxes?	Accept: one box
Normative ethics: deontology, consequentialism, or virtue ethics?	Lean toward: consequentialism
Perceptual experience: disjunctivism, qualia theory, representationalism, or sense-datum theory?	Accept: representationalism
Personal identity: biological view, psychological view, or further-fact view?	Lean toward: psychological view
Politics: communitarianism, egalitarianism, or libertarianism?	Lean toward: egalitarianism
Proper names: Fregean or Millian?	Accept: Fregean
Science: scientific realism or scientific anti-realism?	Accept: scientific realism
Teletransporter (new matter): survival or death?	Lean toward: survival
Time: A-theory or B-theory?	Agnostic/undecided
Trolley problem (five straight ahead, one on side track, turn requires switching, what ought one do?): switch or don't switch?	Accept: switch
Truth: correspondence, deflationary, or epistemic?	Lean toward: correspondence
Zombies: inconceivable, conceivable but not metaphysically possible, or metaphysically possible?	Accept: metaphysically possible

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