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 both
Abstract objects: Platonism or nominalism?Reject bothI'm preferring Formalism.
Aesthetic value: objective or subjective?Insufficiently familiar with the issueThis distinction seems not critical for my own system of categories
Analytic-synthetic distinction: yes or no?Accept: no
Epistemic justification: internalism or externalism?Insufficiently familiar with the issueThis distinction seems not critical for my own system of categories
External world: idealism, skepticism, or non-skeptical realism?Reject one, undecided between othersReject realism.
Free will: compatibilism, libertarianism, or no free will?Insufficiently familiar with the issueThis distinction seems not critical for my own system of categories
God: theism or atheism?Accept: atheismFor me, religions are prominent world models.
Knowledge: empiricism or rationalism?Accept both
Knowledge claims: contextualism, relativism, or invariantism?Accept more than one
Laws of nature: Humean or non-Humean?Accept: Humean
Logic: classical or non-classical?Accept bothThis distinction seems not critical for my own system of categories
Mental content: internalism or externalism?Insufficiently familiar with the issueThis distinction seems not critical for my own system of categories
Meta-ethics: moral realism or moral anti-realism?Insufficiently familiar with the issueThis distinction seems not critical for my own system of categories
Metaphilosophy: naturalism or non-naturalism?Insufficiently familiar with the issueThis distinction seems not critical for my own system of categories
Mind: physicalism or non-physicalism?Accept: physicalism
Moral judgment: cognitivism or non-cognitivism?Insufficiently familiar with the issue
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?Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Perceptual experience: disjunctivism, qualia theory, representationalism, or sense-datum theory?Insufficiently familiar with the issueThis distinction seems not critical for my own system of categories
Personal identity: biological view, psychological view, or further-fact view?Insufficiently familiar with the issueThis distinction seems not critical for my own system of categories
Politics: communitarianism, egalitarianism, or libertarianism?Accept: libertarianism
Proper names: Fregean or Millian?Reject both
Science: scientific realism or scientific anti-realism?Accept: scientific anti-realism
Teletransporter (new matter): survival or death?Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Time: A-theory or B-theory?Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Trolley problem (five straight ahead, one on side track, turn requires switching, what ought one do?): switch or don't switch?Insufficiently familiar with the issueThis distinction seems not critical for my own system of categories
Truth: correspondence, deflationary, or epistemic?Accept: deflationary
Zombies: inconceivable, conceivable but not metaphysically possible, or metaphysically possible?Insufficiently familiar with the issue