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: noThough this depends on how 'experience' is being defined, but ultimately: nothing in the mind that has not been derived from the senses
Abstract objects: Platonism or nominalism?Accept: nominalism
Aesthetic value: objective or subjective?Reject both
Analytic-synthetic distinction: yes or no?Lean toward: no
Epistemic justification: internalism or externalism?Accept an intermediate viewPerhaps a socio-pragmatic correspondence?
External world: idealism, skepticism, or non-skeptical realism?Reject one, undecided between othersRejection of idealism leaving a dynamic and pragmatic balance between realism and skepticism
Free will: compatibilism, libertarianism, or no free will?Lean toward: no free willBUT, this is not to imply any form of determinism (damn, used one myself)- more a individualised self-organisation of probable responses to a limited number possible options
God: theism or atheism?Accept: atheism
Knowledge: empiricism or rationalism?Accept both
Knowledge claims: contextualism, relativism, or invariantism?OtherWhat is it with all these 'isms'? The closest I could suggest would be a pragmatic mapping of a complex and dynamic 'world'.
Laws of nature: Humean or non-Humean?Lean toward: Humean
Logic: classical or non-classical?Reject bothIn fact reject formal logic...sorry.
Mental content: internalism or externalism?Reject bothAre there going to be many more binary oppositions rounded off with a nice 'ism'...if only life were that simple!
Meta-ethics: moral realism or moral anti-realism?Lean toward: moral anti-realism
Metaphilosophy: naturalism or non-naturalism?Lean toward: naturalism
Mind: physicalism or non-physicalism?Lean toward: physicalism
Moral judgment: cognitivism or non-cognitivism?Reject both
Moral motivation: internalism or externalism?Accept bothIn as much as there are social and biological factors that are self-organised as part of 'the self'
Newcomb's problem: one box or two boxes?Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Normative ethics: deontology, consequentialism, or virtue ethics?There is no fact of the matter
Perceptual experience: disjunctivism, qualia theory, representationalism, or sense-datum theory?Reject all
Personal identity: biological view, psychological view, or further-fact view?Accept more than oneI lean towards the view of personal identity & selfhood being an emergent psychological phenomenon - emergent from the biological.
Politics: communitarianism, egalitarianism, or libertarianism?Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Proper names: Fregean or Millian?Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Science: scientific realism or scientific anti-realism?Lean toward: scientific realism
Teletransporter (new matter): survival or death?Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Time: A-theory or B-theory?Reject both
Trolley problem (five straight ahead, one on side track, turn requires switching, what ought one do?): switch or don't switch?The question is too unclear to answerWhilst the question frames the problem an actual response would take into account all the factors occuring at the time, not just the 'clinical' ones given here.
Truth: correspondence, deflationary, or epistemic?Lean toward: correspondence
Zombies: inconceivable, conceivable but not metaphysically possible, or metaphysically possible?Accept: inconceivable