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: 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 viewI 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 alternativeStrictly 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?