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: no
Abstract objects: Platonism or nominalism?Lean toward: nominalism
Aesthetic value: objective or subjective?Accept: objective
Analytic-synthetic distinction: yes or no?Lean toward: noI mean Quine and Putnam are both right, as far as this combination is possible.
Epistemic justification: internalism or externalism?Insufficiently familiar with the issue
External world: idealism, skepticism, or non-skeptical realism?Reject allI'm a wittgensteinian
Free will: compatibilism, libertarianism, or no free will?Reject allThe question is based on a category mistake
God: theism or atheism?Reject bothThe question lacks sense
Knowledge: empiricism or rationalism?The question is too unclear to answerThe question doesn't make sense since Kant.
Knowledge claims: contextualism, relativism, or invariantism?Lean toward: contextualism
Laws of nature: Humean or non-Humean?Lean toward: Humean
Logic: classical or non-classical?Accept: non-classical
Mental content: internalism or externalism?Reject both
Meta-ethics: moral realism or moral anti-realism?Accept: moral anti-realism
Metaphilosophy: naturalism or non-naturalism?Lean toward: non-naturalismIf that means, essence is a question of grammar, and grammar is not forced upon us.
Mind: physicalism or non-physicalism?Reject both
Moral judgment: cognitivism or non-cognitivism?The question is too unclear to answer
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?Lean toward: deontology
Perceptual experience: disjunctivism, qualia theory, representationalism, or sense-datum theory?Reject allAll of these options are based on a category mistake.
Personal identity: biological view, psychological view, or further-fact view?Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Politics: communitarianism, egalitarianism, or libertarianism?Lean toward: communitarianism
Proper names: Fregean or Millian?Reject both
Science: scientific realism or scientific anti-realism?Lean toward: scientific anti-realism
Teletransporter (new matter): survival or death?There is no fact of the matterI think the questions are based on wrong (grammatical) suppositions
Time: A-theory or B-theory?Insufficiently familiar with the issueI have no idea what either theory is
Trolley problem (five straight ahead, one on side track, turn requires switching, what ought one do?): switch or don't switch?Agnostic/undecidedProblems of ethics should not be discussed as an abstract model theory; the moral stance of the persons involved matters.
Truth: correspondence, deflationary, or epistemic?Lean toward: deflationaryThere can't be one true theory about truth
Zombies: inconceivable, conceivable but not metaphysically possible, or metaphysically possible?The question is too unclear to answerI suppose this question is based on the believe that "other minds" is a philosophical problem. I don't think it is.