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: yes
Abstract objects: Platonism or nominalism?OtherLearning Theravada Buddhism
Aesthetic value: objective or subjective?OtherLearning Middle Way
Analytic-synthetic distinction: yes or no?Otherno training in formal philosophy
Epistemic justification: internalism or externalism?Insufficiently familiar with the issueMiddle Way. Continue to struggle with the either-or formulation of questions
External world: idealism, skepticism, or non-skeptical realism?Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Free will: compatibilism, libertarianism, or no free will?Other"free will" in relation to what?
God: theism or atheism?OtherDescribe "God" before answer is possible. Do not believe in God the creator. There is no beginning or end in an ultimate reality
Knowledge: empiricism or rationalism?OtherBoth. To understand reality one must observe as well as use logic. Not sure of formal definitions of both.
Knowledge claims: contextualism, relativism, or invariantism?OtherTwo realities: conventional/relative and ultimate
Laws of nature: Humean or non-Humean?Accept another alternative
Logic: classical or non-classical?Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Mental content: internalism or externalism?Accept bothdifficulties with the 'either-or' format of the questionaire, even with the "lean toward" option
Meta-ethics: moral realism or moral anti-realism?Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Metaphilosophy: naturalism or non-naturalism?Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Mind: physicalism or non-physicalism?Otherdepends on the level of analysis
Moral judgment: cognitivism or non-cognitivism?The question is too unclear to answer
Moral motivation: internalism or externalism?Other"external-internal" differentiation is superficial in this context
Newcomb's problem: one box or two boxes?Insufficiently familiar with the issuehave no training in formal philosophy
Normative ethics: deontology, consequentialism, or virtue ethics?Accept: virtue ethics
Perceptual experience: disjunctivism, qualia theory, representationalism, or sense-datum theory?Othersensory input individually variable. meaning dependent on definition of reality
Personal identity: biological view, psychological view, or further-fact view?OtherTwo identities: conventional and emptiness
Politics: communitarianism, egalitarianism, or libertarianism?Lean toward: communitarianism
Proper names: Fregean or Millian?Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Science: scientific realism or scientific anti-realism?Accept both
Teletransporter (new matter): survival or death?OtherContinuation of karmic strand within the law of cause and effect
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 issue
Truth: correspondence, deflationary, or epistemic?OtherTwo Truths: Ultimate and conventional/consentual
Zombies: inconceivable, conceivable but not metaphysically possible, or metaphysically possible?Insufficiently familiar with the issue