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 another alternative
Aesthetic value: objective or subjective?Accept an intermediate view
Analytic-synthetic distinction: yes or no?Accept: yes
Epistemic justification: internalism or externalism?Accept: internalism
External world: idealism, skepticism, or non-skeptical realism?The question is too unclear to answer
Free will: compatibilism, libertarianism, or no free will?Accept: compatibilismI accept the Wittgensteinian view on intentional action, but believe that it is robustly consistent with a form of compatibilism.
God: theism or atheism?Accept: theismI believe in God, but maintain that theism as a philosophical theory is bankrupt at best and at worst sacrilege. Hence in one sense I could be regarded an atheist.
Knowledge: empiricism or rationalism?Accept another alternative
Knowledge claims: contextualism, relativism, or invariantism?Lean toward: contextualism
Laws of nature: Humean or non-Humean?Accept: non-Humean
Logic: classical or non-classical?Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Mental content: internalism or externalism?There is no fact of the matterWhat's mental content?
Meta-ethics: moral realism or moral anti-realism?There is no fact of the matterFalse dichotomy
Metaphilosophy: naturalism or non-naturalism?The question is too unclear to answer
Mind: physicalism or non-physicalism?Lean toward: physicalismNaturalism of some kind.
Moral judgment: cognitivism or non-cognitivism?Accept: cognitivism
Moral motivation: internalism or externalism?Lean toward: internalism
Newcomb's problem: one box or two boxes?Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Normative ethics: deontology, consequentialism, or virtue ethics?Lean toward: virtue ethicsBut more Marxian than Aristotelian.
Perceptual experience: disjunctivism, qualia theory, representationalism, or sense-datum theory?Accept another alternative
Personal identity: biological view, psychological view, or further-fact view?There is no fact of the matterPI is whatever you want it to be. Locke provides the locus classicus for these discussions, but form him 'person' is a forensic and not an ontological category.
Politics: communitarianism, egalitarianism, or libertarianism?Accept another alternativeRadical
Proper names: Fregean or Millian?Lean toward: Millian
Science: scientific realism or scientific anti-realism?Accept: scientific realism
Teletransporter (new matter): survival or death?Accept: death
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?Accept: switch
Truth: correspondence, deflationary, or epistemic?Lean toward: correspondence
Zombies: inconceivable, conceivable but not metaphysically possible, or metaphysically possible?Accept: inconceivableBut who cares?