Profile for Berit Brogaard

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?	Accept: Platonism
Aesthetic value: objective or subjective?	Accept: subjective
Analytic-synthetic distinction: yes or no?	Accept: yes
Epistemic justification: internalism or externalism?	Accept: internalism
External world: idealism, skepticism, or non-skeptical realism?	Lean toward: idealism
Free will: compatibilism, libertarianism, or no free will?	Accept: libertarianism
God: theism or atheism?	Accept: theism
Knowledge: empiricism or rationalism?	Accept: rationalism
Knowledge claims: contextualism, relativism, or invariantism?	Accept: contextualism
Laws of nature: Humean or non-Humean?	Accept: non-Humean
Logic: classical or non-classical?	Accept: non-classical
Mental content: internalism or externalism?	Accept: internalism
Meta-ethics: moral realism or moral anti-realism?	Lean toward: moral realism
Metaphilosophy: naturalism or non-naturalism?	Lean toward: non-naturalism
Mind: physicalism or non-physicalism?	Accept: non-physicalism
Moral judgment: cognitivism or non-cognitivism?	Accept: non-cognitivism
Moral motivation: internalism or externalism?	Accept: internalism
Newcomb's problem: one box or two boxes?	Accept: one box
Normative ethics: deontology, consequentialism, or virtue ethics?	Accept: deontology
Perceptual experience: disjunctivism, qualia theory, representationalism, or sense-datum theory?	Accept: qualia theory
Personal identity: biological view, psychological view, or further-fact view?	Accept: psychological view
Politics: communitarianism, egalitarianism, or libertarianism?	Accept: egalitarianism
Proper names: Fregean or Millian?	Lean toward: Fregean
Science: scientific realism or scientific anti-realism?	Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Teletransporter (new matter): survival or death?	Accept: survival
Time: A-theory or B-theory?	Accept: A-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?	Lean toward: epistemic
Zombies: inconceivable, conceivable but not metaphysically possible, or metaphysically possible?	Accept: metaphysically possible

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