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? | Accept both | *is what is prior knowledge, yes knowledge, is what is prior knowledge, no knowledge, exist both | |
Abstract objects: Platonism or nominalism? | Accept both | platonism, I is me, familiar is platonism or nominalism | |
Aesthetic value: objective or subjective? | Accept both | I is me, she is her, we is us, to | |
Analytic-synthetic distinction: yes or no? | Insufficiently familiar with the issue | * | |
Epistemic justification: internalism or externalism? | Accept both | | |
External world: idealism, skepticism, or non-skeptical realism? | Accept: non-skeptical realism | non-skeptical realism is non-skeptical, real* | |
Free will: compatibilism, libertarianism, or no free will? | Accept: libertarianism | *is what is compatibalism, compatibalism, free will is free will, liberty | |
God: theism or atheism? | Accept an intermediate view | *faithful, believer, fact is God: atheism or theism, | |
Knowledge: empiricism or rationalism? | Accept: rationalism | | |
Knowledge claims: contextualism, relativism, or invariantism? | Accept more than one | relativism, contextualism, I to you, me to you, I to me | |
Laws of nature: Humean or non-Humean? | Insufficiently familiar with the issue | Hume, philosopher | |
Logic: classical or non-classical? | Insufficiently familiar with the issue | classical as determinist, familiarity, evidential, non-classical, random, least statistical | |
Mental content: internalism or externalism? | Accept both | *2014, May 6 | |
Meta-ethics: moral realism or moral anti-realism? | Insufficiently familiar with the issue | moral realism is moral existence, moral anti realism is moral existence not or | |
Metaphilosophy: naturalism or non-naturalism? | Accept both | non-naturalism is common interest but non a righ*
naturalism is common interest, and non-naturalism is common self interest | |
Mind: physicalism or non-physicalism? | Accept: physicalism | I is me, myself and I* | |
Moral judgment: cognitivism or non-cognitivism? | Accept: cognitivism | *familiar not is familiar, cognitivism is cognitivism | |
Moral motivation: internalism or externalism? | Accept: internalism | *is what is internalism, internalism, is what is externalism, externalism | |
Newcomb's problem: one box or two boxes? | Insufficiently familiar with the issue | one box, two box, 1, 2, box, | |
Normative ethics: deontology, consequentialism, or virtue ethics? | Accept more than one | *ethic, virtue, ethic, deontology | |
Perceptual experience: disjunctivism, qualia theory, representationalism, or sense-datum theory? | Insufficiently familiar with the issue | I sense is behavior me (existentialism) | |
Personal identity: biological view, psychological view, or further-fact view? | Accept: psychological view | I, me, myself* | |
Politics: communitarianism, egalitarianism, or libertarianism? | Accept: communitarianism | communitarianism, community, collective noun, family we, we common, commonwealth, socialist I | |
Proper names: Fregean or Millian? | Insufficiently familiar with the issue | Millian to I, Fregean to I and what is a fregean to me is a fregean to you, and what is a fregean, and what is a millian | |
Science: scientific realism or scientific anti-realism? | Insufficiently familiar with the issue | scientific realism is science*
scientific anti realism is | |
Teletransporter (new matter): survival or death? | Insufficiently familiar with the issue | *survival, death, teletransporter | |
Time: A-theory or B-theory? | Insufficiently familiar with the issue | A is B is C is D is E is F is G, hijklmnop | |
Trolley problem (five straight ahead, one on side track, turn requires switching, what ought one do?): switch or don't switch? | Accept both | *trolley, car, transportation, ethic | |
Truth: correspondence, deflationary, or epistemic? | Insufficiently familiar with the issue | truth is correspondence*is what is truth, epistemic | |
Zombies: inconceivable, conceivable but not metaphysically possible, or metaphysically possible? | Insufficiently familiar with the issue | hahahaha | |