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?Accept both
Aesthetic value: objective or subjective?Lean toward: subjective
Analytic-synthetic distinction: yes or no?Lean toward: no
Epistemic justification: internalism or externalism?Accept another alternative
External world: idealism, skepticism, or non-skeptical realism?Accept more than oneIdealism in some sense, non-skeptical realism in some sense. I'm not sure they have to conflict. Cf. Hegel.
Free will: compatibilism, libertarianism, or no free will?Accept an intermediate viewDeterminism in the scientific image, libertarianism in the manifest image, and neither image is fundamental or reducible to the other. Maybe that counts as compatibilism?
God: theism or atheism?Lean toward: atheismAtheism with respect to a metaphysically supernatural intelligent creator. Agnosticism/ignosticism for other variations on the theistic theme. Definitely not reductive materialism.
Knowledge: empiricism or rationalism?Accept both`Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.'
Knowledge claims: contextualism, relativism, or invariantism?The question is too unclear to answer
Laws of nature: Humean or non-Humean?Lean toward: non-HumeanIn my limited understanding, Humeanism doesn't provide the resources to make sense of robust alethic modality.
Logic: classical or non-classical?Lean toward: non-classicalRelevance logic
Mental content: internalism or externalism?Lean toward: externalism
Meta-ethics: moral realism or moral anti-realism?Accept: moral realismWell, normative realism anyway. I'm really not sure what to think about distinctly moral norms, if there are any such things.
Metaphilosophy: naturalism or non-naturalism?Accept: non-naturalism
Mind: physicalism or non-physicalism?Accept: non-physicalism
Moral judgment: cognitivism or non-cognitivism?Accept an intermediate view
Moral motivation: internalism or externalism?Accept another alternativeI reject the belief/desire dichotomy (assuming they're defined in terms of direction of fit). I have to think about this more, but maybe something like sensibility theory.
Newcomb's problem: one box or two boxes?Lean toward: one box
Normative ethics: deontology, consequentialism, or virtue ethics?Lean toward: virtue ethicsBut I'm drifting toward some kind of second-personal, recognition-based view.
Perceptual experience: disjunctivism, qualia theory, representationalism, or sense-datum theory?Lean toward: disjunctivism
Personal identity: biological view, psychological view, or further-fact view?There is no fact of the matter
Politics: communitarianism, egalitarianism, or libertarianism?Lean toward: communitarianismSocial anarchism, really. Not totally sure what flavor, but definitely *not* individualist.
Proper names: Fregean or Millian?Lean toward: Fregean
Science: scientific realism or scientific anti-realism?Accept another alternative
Teletransporter (new matter): survival or death?Lean toward: death
Time: A-theory or B-theory?There is no fact of the matter
Trolley problem (five straight ahead, one on side track, turn requires switching, what ought one do?): switch or don't switch?There is no fact of the matter
Truth: correspondence, deflationary, or epistemic?Accept: deflationary
Zombies: inconceivable, conceivable but not metaphysically possible, or metaphysically possible?The question is too unclear to answer