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? | Lean toward: no | | |
Abstract objects: Platonism or nominalism? | Skip | | |
Aesthetic value: objective or subjective? | Lean toward: subjective | | |
Analytic-synthetic distinction: yes or no? | Skip | | |
Epistemic justification: internalism or externalism? | Skip | | |
External world: idealism, skepticism, or non-skeptical realism? | Accept: skepticism | | |
Free will: compatibilism, libertarianism, or no free will? | Lean toward: no free will | | |
God: theism or atheism? | Lean toward: atheism | | |
Knowledge: empiricism or rationalism? | There is no fact of the matter | | |
Knowledge claims: contextualism, relativism, or invariantism? | Accept an intermediate view | I am a Skeptic-Relativist. | |
Laws of nature: Humean or non-Humean? | Skip | | |
Logic: classical or non-classical? | Skip | | |
Mental content: internalism or externalism? | Skip | | |
Meta-ethics: moral realism or moral anti-realism? | Skip | | |
Metaphilosophy: naturalism or non-naturalism? | Skip | | |
Mind: physicalism or non-physicalism? | Skip | | |
Moral judgment: cognitivism or non-cognitivism? | Skip | | |
Moral motivation: internalism or externalism? | Skip | | |
Newcomb's problem: one box or two boxes? | Lean toward: one box | | |
Normative ethics: deontology, consequentialism, or virtue ethics? | Accept: consequentialism | | |
Perceptual experience: disjunctivism, qualia theory, representationalism, or sense-datum theory? | Skip | | |
Personal identity: biological view, psychological view, or further-fact view? | Skip | | |
Politics: communitarianism, egalitarianism, or libertarianism? | Accept an intermediate view | | |
Proper names: Fregean or Millian? | Skip | | |
Science: scientific realism or scientific anti-realism? | Skip | | |
Teletransporter (new matter): survival or death? | Insufficiently familiar with the issue | | |
Time: A-theory or B-theory? | Skip | | |
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? | Skip | | |
Zombies: inconceivable, conceivable but not metaphysically possible, or metaphysically possible? | Accept another alternative | Strictly from an ethics point of view, I consider the logical possibility of two views. The first I consider: Humans lack lack an immaterial moral consciousness. And so a question follows: how can an immaterial consciousness be incomplete? Another view I consider: if humans do possess an immaterial moral consciousness, then how and why do some others lack it? Can it be true that some people are free to act morally while some others are not? | |