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.
Question | Answer | Comments | |
A priori knowledge: yes or no? | The question is too unclear to answer | The cognizer has a living organization that is developed in continuous interaction with the environment and through a long evodevo history... there is simply no a priori. Wrong question | |
Abstract objects: Platonism or nominalism? | Other | Interactive generalization? Come on! Piaget even visited USA... give it a try! | |
Aesthetic value: objective or subjective? | Accept both | | |
Analytic-synthetic distinction: yes or no? | Lean toward: yes | | |
Epistemic justification: internalism or externalism? | Accept both | | |
External world: idealism, skepticism, or non-skeptical realism? | The question is too unclear to answer | External World? I am IN the world, it can be external to my experience... forgot Heidegger was a philosopher? | |
Free will: compatibilism, libertarianism, or no free will? | Lean toward: compatibilism | | |
God: theism or atheism? | Accept: atheism | Is this a serious question? | |
Knowledge: empiricism or rationalism? | Accept both | the dichotomy is rather false, empirically sustained modeling coherentism would be an appropriate 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? | Accept: non-classical | | |
Mental content: internalism or externalism? | Other | Interactivism, please a bit of consideration for the non-orthodox | |
Meta-ethics: moral realism or moral anti-realism? | Insufficiently familiar with the issue | | |
Metaphilosophy: naturalism or non-naturalism? | Accept: naturalism | | |
Mind: physicalism or non-physicalism? | The question is too unclear to answer | Again! but what is physics, biologicalism? perhaps | |
Moral judgment: cognitivism or non-cognitivism? | Insufficiently familiar with the issue | | |
Moral motivation: internalism or externalism? | Insufficiently familiar with the issue | | |
Newcomb's problem: one box or two boxes? | Insufficiently familiar with the issue | | |
Normative ethics: deontology, consequentialism, or virtue ethics? | Accept another alternative | Proceduralism. Did you know there are also philosophers in Europe? Check out Habermas to give you a taste | |
Perceptual experience: disjunctivism, qualia theory, representationalism, or sense-datum theory? | Reject all | sensorimotor, enactive and embodied | |
Personal identity: biological view, psychological view, or further-fact view? | Lean toward: psychological view | But the whole question is ... what is psychology? On this matter I don't think that I have the same conception of psychology as the standard view within the analytic crew | |
Politics: communitarianism, egalitarianism, or libertarianism? | Accept another alternative | libertarian communitarism towards egalitarianism, local self-management and collective autonomy | |
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? | Accept: survival | | |
Time: A-theory or B-theory? | Insufficiently familiar with the issue | | |
Trolley problem (five straight ahead, one on side track, turn requires switching, what ought one do?): switch or don't switch? | Insufficiently familiar with the issue | | |
Truth: correspondence, deflationary, or epistemic? | There is no fact of the matter | | |
Zombies: inconceivable, conceivable but not metaphysically possible, or metaphysically possible? | The question is too unclear to answer | Camon' still with the zombie stuff? we don't even know what consciousness is!!! | |