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.

See also:

QuestionAnswerComments
A priori knowledge: yes or no?Lean toward: no
Abstract objects: Platonism or nominalism?Reject both
Aesthetic value: objective or subjective?Lean toward: subjective
Analytic-synthetic distinction: yes or no?Accept: no
Epistemic justification: internalism or externalism?Reject both
External world: idealism, skepticism, or non-skeptical realism?Reject all
Free will: compatibilism, libertarianism, or no free will?Reject all
God: theism or atheism?Agnostic/undecided
Knowledge: empiricism or rationalism?Reject both
Knowledge claims: contextualism, relativism, or invariantism?Reject all
Laws of nature: Humean or non-Humean?Reject both
Logic: classical or non-classical?Lean toward: non-classical
Mental content: internalism or externalism?Reject both
Meta-ethics: moral realism or moral anti-realism?Reject both
Metaphilosophy: naturalism or non-naturalism?Reject both
Mind: physicalism or non-physicalism?Reject both
Moral judgment: cognitivism or non-cognitivism?Reject both
Moral motivation: internalism or externalism?Reject both
Newcomb's problem: one box or two boxes?Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Normative ethics: deontology, consequentialism, or virtue ethics?Reject all
Perceptual experience: disjunctivism, qualia theory, representationalism, or sense-datum theory?Reject allI tend towards an account drawn from the early Heidegger, which isn't reflected in any of these approaches. The lines of division between them are very frustrating to the continental tradition.
Personal identity: biological view, psychological view, or further-fact view?Reject all
Politics: communitarianism, egalitarianism, or libertarianism?Reject allThere are many other positions outside of these; I would lean towards an "ethics of care" approach.
Proper names: Fregean or Millian?Reject both
Science: scientific realism or scientific anti-realism?Reject bothAgain, I'd look to Foucault, Canguilhem and Bachelard.
Teletransporter (new matter): survival or death?Accept both
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?Lean toward: switch
Truth: correspondence, deflationary, or epistemic?Reject allAgain, I feel very unhelpful in answering this question as it is alien to the continental tradition - although I am sufficiently aware of the positions above. I draw heavily on accounts of truth forward in Foucault's work; which is substantially different to those above
Zombies: inconceivable, conceivable but not metaphysically possible, or metaphysically possible?Accept: inconceivable