Profile for Stephen Yablo

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?	Lean toward: yes
Abstract objects: Platonism or nominalism?	Accept another alternative
Aesthetic value: objective or subjective?	Accept an intermediate view
Analytic-synthetic distinction: yes or no?	The question is too unclear to answer
Epistemic justification: internalism or externalism?	Accept: externalism
External world: idealism, skepticism, or non-skeptical realism?	Lean toward: non-skeptical realism
Free will: compatibilism, libertarianism, or no free will?	Lean toward: compatibilism
God: theism or atheism?	Accept: atheism
Knowledge: empiricism or rationalism?	The question is too unclear to answer
Knowledge claims: contextualism, relativism, or invariantism?	Lean toward: contextualism
Laws of nature: Humean or non-Humean?	Lean toward: non-Humean
Logic: classical or non-classical?	Lean toward: classical
Mental content: internalism or externalism?	Accept: externalism
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?	Lean toward: cognitivism
Moral motivation: internalism or externalism?	The question is too unclear to answer
Newcomb's problem: one box or two boxes?	Lean toward: two boxes
Normative ethics: deontology, consequentialism, or virtue ethics?	Agnostic/undecided
Perceptual experience: disjunctivism, qualia theory, representationalism, or sense-datum theory?	Lean toward: qualia theory
Personal identity: biological view, psychological view, or further-fact view?	Lean toward: psychological view
Politics: communitarianism, egalitarianism, or libertarianism?	Lean toward: egalitarianism
Proper names: Fregean or Millian?	Accept: Millian
Science: scientific realism or scientific anti-realism?	Lean toward: scientific realism
Teletransporter (new matter): survival or death?	Accept: survival
Time: A-theory or B-theory?	Agnostic/undecided
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?	Agnostic/undecided
Zombies: inconceivable, conceivable but not metaphysically possible, or metaphysically possible?	Lean toward: conceivable but not metaphysically possible

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