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: noNo. At least not in the Kantian sense of "a priori".
Abstract objects: Platonism or nominalism?Accept: nominalismI'm still waiting for an empirical evidence for the existence of some "abstract object".
Aesthetic value: objective or subjective?Accept: subjective
Analytic-synthetic distinction: yes or no?Accept: noYet another word game that I refuse to play.
Epistemic justification: internalism or externalism?Accept: externalismArgumentative fallibilism combined with demonstrative foundationalism.
External world: idealism, skepticism, or non-skeptical realism?Accept: non-skeptical realism
Free will: compatibilism, libertarianism, or no free will?Lean toward: compatibilismYet another folk psychological word game.
God: theism or atheism?Accept: atheismStill waiting for those empirical evidence pointing to the existence of "omniscient omnipresent being".
Knowledge: empiricism or rationalism?Accept: empiricismNewton's Flaming Laser Sword.
Knowledge claims: contextualism, relativism, or invariantism?Lean toward: contextualism
Laws of nature: Humean or non-Humean?Accept: Humean
Logic: classical or non-classical?Accept bothPragmatism-driven answer.
Mental content: internalism or externalism?Accept: externalism
Meta-ethics: moral realism or moral anti-realism?Lean toward: moral anti-realism
Metaphilosophy: naturalism or non-naturalism?Accept: naturalismTLP 6.53
Mind: physicalism or non-physicalism?Accept: physicalismEliminative materialism, to be precise.
Moral judgment: cognitivism or non-cognitivism?Lean toward: non-cognitivism
Moral motivation: internalism or externalism?Accept: externalism
Newcomb's problem: one box or two boxes?Accept: two boxes
Normative ethics: deontology, consequentialism, or virtue ethics?Accept: consequentialism
Perceptual experience: disjunctivism, qualia theory, representationalism, or sense-datum theory?Accept: representationalism
Personal identity: biological view, psychological view, or further-fact view?Accept: biological view
Politics: communitarianism, egalitarianism, or libertarianism?Accept another alternativePluralism.
Proper names: Fregean or Millian?Accept another alternativeStrictly speaking, the only proper names are the indexicals.
Science: scientific realism or scientific anti-realism?Accept: scientific realism
Teletransporter (new matter): survival or death?There is no fact of the matter
Time: A-theory or B-theory?Accept another alternativeClearly, space-time continuum.
Trolley problem (five straight ahead, one on side track, turn requires switching, what ought one do?): switch or don't switch?Accept: switch
Truth: correspondence, deflationary, or epistemic?Accept: correspondence
Zombies: inconceivable, conceivable but not metaphysically possible, or metaphysically possible?Reject allStill waiting for those empirical evidence...