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?The question is too unclear to answer
Aesthetic value: objective or subjective?Lean toward: subjectiveTarkovsky's Solaris is unquestionably a better film than Sodebergh's Solaris; it isn't a mere matter of opinion. But it is a subjective fact, and not an objective one.
Analytic-synthetic distinction: yes or no?Reject both
Epistemic justification: internalism or externalism?Reject both
External world: idealism, skepticism, or non-skeptical realism?Reject allI affirmatively deny the external world
Free will: compatibilism, libertarianism, or no free will?Accept: libertarianismI'm a libertarian compatibilist, as I feel that the nature of universal causality has no bearing on that of free will.
God: theism or atheism?Agnostic/undecided
Knowledge: empiricism or rationalism?Accept: rationalismNeo-Structuralist Rationalism
Knowledge claims: contextualism, relativism, or invariantism?Accept more than oneInvariant in the context of how and where it was said
Laws of nature: Humean or non-Humean?Accept: Humean
Logic: classical or non-classical?Reject both
Mental content: internalism or externalism?Accept: externalism
Meta-ethics: moral realism or moral anti-realism?Accept bothThat joke isn't funny anymore
Metaphilosophy: naturalism or non-naturalism?Accept: non-naturalism
Mind: physicalism or non-physicalism?Accept: physicalism
Moral judgment: cognitivism or non-cognitivism?Accept: cognitivism
Moral motivation: internalism or externalism?Accept both
Newcomb's problem: one box or two boxes?Accept: two boxes
Normative ethics: deontology, consequentialism, or virtue ethics?Accept: virtue ethics
Perceptual experience: disjunctivism, qualia theory, representationalism, or sense-datum theory?Accept more than oneA toxic mixture of sense-data theory and disjunctivism
Personal identity: biological view, psychological view, or further-fact view?Accept: biological view
Politics: communitarianism, egalitarianism, or libertarianism?Accept: libertarianismRight
Proper names: Fregean or Millian?Accept: Fregean
Science: scientific realism or scientific anti-realism?Accept bothSome sciences are realer than others
Teletransporter (new matter): survival or death?Accept: death
Time: A-theory or B-theory?Accept: B-theory
Trolley problem (five straight ahead, one on side track, turn requires switching, what ought one do?): switch or don't switch?Accept: don't switch
Truth: correspondence, deflationary, or epistemic?Accept: correspondence
Zombies: inconceivable, conceivable but not metaphysically possible, or metaphysically possible?There is no fact of the matter