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?Lean toward: yes
Abstract objects: Platonism or nominalism?Lean toward: Platonism
Aesthetic value: objective or subjective?Reject bothThe origin of aesthetic value is anterior to the subject-object dichotomy
Analytic-synthetic distinction: yes or no?Accept: yes
Epistemic justification: internalism or externalism?Accept an intermediate viewIt depends on one's state of consciousness
External world: idealism, skepticism, or non-skeptical realism?Lean toward: idealism
Free will: compatibilism, libertarianism, or no free will?The question is too unclear to answerIf our conception of compatibilism were broader, I might accept compatibilism.
God: theism or atheism?The question is too unclear to answer
Knowledge: empiricism or rationalism?Lean toward: empiricism
Knowledge claims: contextualism, relativism, or invariantism?Lean toward: contextualism
Laws of nature: Humean or non-Humean?Accept: non-Humean
Logic: classical or non-classical?Lean toward: non-classical
Mental content: internalism or externalism?Lean toward: internalismThere is a state of consciousness, yet to evolve, in which the distinction is transcended.
Meta-ethics: moral realism or moral anti-realism?The question is too unclear to answerIf moral realism were more broadly defined, I might accept it.
Metaphilosophy: naturalism or non-naturalism?Accept: non-naturalismIf our concept of nature were broader, I might accept naturalism.
Mind: physicalism or non-physicalism?Accept: non-physicalism
Moral judgment: cognitivism or non-cognitivism?Skip
Moral motivation: internalism or externalism?Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Newcomb's problem: one box or two boxes?Skip
Normative ethics: deontology, consequentialism, or virtue ethics?Skip
Perceptual experience: disjunctivism, qualia theory, representationalism, or sense-datum theory?Reject allUltimately all knowledge is knowledge by identity; derivative forms of knowledge are direct knowledge and knowledge by representation.
Personal identity: biological view, psychological view, or further-fact view?The question is too unclear to answer
Politics: communitarianism, egalitarianism, or libertarianism?Accept more than oneIn a sufficiently advanced state of consciousness, there is no difference between the three.
Proper names: Fregean or Millian?There is no fact of the matter
Science: scientific realism or scientific anti-realism?Accept: scientific anti-realism
Teletransporter (new matter): survival or death?There is no fact of the matter
Time: A-theory or B-theory?Accept bothThere is a poise of consciousness experience where past present and future are equally real; there is a poise where past and future are involved in the present; the distinction between past present and future is real but not objectifiable.
Trolley problem (five straight ahead, one on side track, turn requires switching, what ought one do?): switch or don't switch?The question is too unclear to answerIt depends on whether the one is or the five are more valuable, a question that only a higher state of consciousness can resolve.
Truth: correspondence, deflationary, or epistemic?Lean toward: epistemic
Zombies: inconceivable, conceivable but not metaphysically possible, or metaphysically possible?Lean toward: conceivable but not metaphysically possible