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 alternativeIt would be funny if the idea of nominalism itself was an abstract object... is it?
Aesthetic value: objective or subjective?Accept an intermediate view
Analytic-synthetic distinction: yes or no?Agnostic/undecidedI don't know, it could go either way for me. I understand the distinction but it feels to me like it just comes from how we assign meaning to words combined with the syntax of language. Does this make it an actual distinction? Perhaps so, but it is too vague for me to commit to a "yes".
Epistemic justification: internalism or externalism?Accept: internalismIf not internalism, how to justify the external?
External world: idealism, skepticism, or non-skeptical realism?Lean toward: idealismSkepticism makes no sense, I can't really decide between idealism or "realism". But since I process everything mentally, I seem to only experience the world in an ideal form, and I like to entertain the idea that mental "substance" is exactly what the world is. But maybe not.
Free will: compatibilism, libertarianism, or no free will?Accept: libertarianismNo free will is the epitome of meaninglessness, and compatibilism does not make that much sense to me, although I am understanding it better now. It's like the world exists in two layers, the one that behaves predictably and the abstract one that contains free will, but the abstract one somehow directs the predictable one as if from a different time. There is absolutely no purpose in believing that there is no free will. It's ironic too, that you have the choice to decide which view to possess.
God: theism or atheism?Accept: atheismWhy is this question here? :D
Knowledge: empiricism or rationalism?Accept: rationalismOne must possess some internal logic / rationality in order to understand empiricism. Take away the higher processing from a brain and feed it sensory information. It may act, but the self will not have an understanding of the world. It doesn't matter if the capacity for reason comes from operations within the world (perhaps it does), that isn't what the question is about. It's about which type of information gathering/processing method is the first-line requirement, and clearly some form of reasoning is required to make sense of perception (leading to empiricism). This also isn't a rejection of empiricism as a useful tool, but only a rejection that it is the foundation for all knowledge.
Knowledge claims: contextualism, relativism, or invariantism?Accept: invariantism
Laws of nature: Humean or non-Humean?Accept: non-Humean
Logic: classical or non-classical?Accept: classical
Mental content: internalism or externalism?Accept: internalism
Meta-ethics: moral realism or moral anti-realism?Accept: moral realismUghhhhh moral anti-realists. If you don't think there is morality perhaps you think it's okay if someone were to burn your house down and kidnap your family.
Metaphilosophy: naturalism or non-naturalism?Accept: non-naturalism
Mind: physicalism or non-physicalism?Accept: non-physicalism
Moral judgment: cognitivism or non-cognitivism?Accept both:D!
Moral motivation: internalism or externalism?Accept: internalism
Newcomb's problem: one box or two boxes?The question is too unclear to answer
Normative ethics: deontology, consequentialism, or virtue ethics?Accept an intermediate view
Perceptual experience: disjunctivism, qualia theory, representationalism, or sense-datum theory?Agnostic/undecidedIf I were to accept idealism, would that make this question go away? I hope so...
Personal identity: biological view, psychological view, or further-fact view?Accept: further-fact view
Politics: communitarianism, egalitarianism, or libertarianism?Reject allAnarchism but punk rock is terrible.
Proper names: Fregean or Millian?Accept: Millian
Science: scientific realism or scientific anti-realism?Agnostic/undecided
Teletransporter (new matter): survival or death?Agnostic/undecidedLive on as a zombie! Or someone else in your body.
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?Lean toward: don't switch
Truth: correspondence, deflationary, or epistemic?Accept: correspondence
Zombies: inconceivable, conceivable but not metaphysically possible, or metaphysically possible?Lean toward: conceivable but not metaphysically possibleHow many thoughts would a p-zombie think if a p-zombie could think thoughts?