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: yes
Abstract objects: Platonism or nominalism?Lean toward: Platonism
Aesthetic value: objective or subjective?Accept bothSome aesthetic pleasure can be evil, so it's not entirely subjective, but aesthetic value is not the same for everyone everywhere.
Analytic-synthetic distinction: yes or no?Accept: yes
Epistemic justification: internalism or externalism?Accept: internalismNo question. Norman!
External world: idealism, skepticism, or non-skeptical realism?Agnostic/undecidedSometimes I'm a transcendental idealist; sometimes, a skeptic; most often, lately, a naive realist.
Free will: compatibilism, libertarianism, or no free will?Lean toward: libertarianism
God: theism or atheism?Lean toward: theismThat's a tough one. I'm not sure whether I accept or merely lean toward.
Knowledge: empiricism or rationalism?Lean toward: rationalismAt least some true propositions, if known, are not known purely on the basis of experience. So I guess I lean toward rationalism.
Knowledge claims: contextualism, relativism, or invariantism?OtherContextualist, in the sense that different contexts call for different *senses* of 'know' - not in the sense that the same sense of 'know' requires different degrees of justification in different contexts.
Laws of nature: Humean or non-Humean?Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Logic: classical or non-classical?Accept: classical
Mental content: internalism or externalism?Lean toward: internalism
Meta-ethics: moral realism or moral anti-realism?Accept: moral realism
Metaphilosophy: naturalism or non-naturalism?Lean toward: non-naturalismOnly because 'naturalism' is not a well-behaved word...
Mind: physicalism or non-physicalism?OtherI think my views here might be incoherent.
Moral judgment: cognitivism or non-cognitivism?Accept: cognitivism
Moral motivation: internalism or externalism?Accept: externalism
Newcomb's problem: one box or two boxes?The question is too unclear to answerThe problem is described in various ways; I'm not sure which is the standard.
Normative ethics: deontology, consequentialism, or virtue ethics?Lean toward: deontology
Perceptual experience: disjunctivism, qualia theory, representationalism, or sense-datum theory?Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Personal identity: biological view, psychological view, or further-fact view?Lean toward: psychological view
Politics: communitarianism, egalitarianism, or libertarianism?Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Proper names: Fregean or Millian?Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Science: scientific realism or scientific anti-realism?Lean toward: scientific realism
Teletransporter (new matter): survival or death?Agnostic/undecidedAgh! I'd rather not think about it...
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?Accept: switch
Truth: correspondence, deflationary, or epistemic?Accept: correspondence
Zombies: inconceivable, conceivable but not metaphysically possible, or metaphysically possible?Lean toward: inconceivable