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.
Question | Answer | Comments | |
A priori knowledge: yes or no? | Accept: no | I know only the present moment. | |
Abstract objects: Platonism or nominalism? | Reject both | Abstract object as defined in Object Oriented Programming. | |
Aesthetic value: objective or subjective? | Reject both | Aesthetic value is meaningless to me. | |
Analytic-synthetic distinction: yes or no? | Reject both | There is no such distinction; it is Kantian. | |
Epistemic justification: internalism or externalism? | Reject both | My view these words cannot describe. How do you explain the Einstein's four dimensional world. | |
External world: idealism, skepticism, or non-skeptical realism? | Reject all | The world is me. No "isms" | |
Free will: compatibilism, libertarianism, or no free will? | Reject all | I accept causality as stated by Lord Buddha: Four Ariyan Truths. | |
God: theism or atheism? | Other | No creator God, others I cannot give an answer meaningful to a another. | |
Knowledge: empiricism or rationalism? | Other | Again no isms | |
Knowledge claims: contextualism, relativism, or invariantism? | Reject all | None of the above. I know what I see provided there is a way to name it; | |
Laws of nature: Humean or non-Humean? | Reject both | I am talking abaout a compeletely different conception of reality. | |
Logic: classical or non-classical? | Accept: classical | | |
Mental content: internalism or externalism? | Reject both | For me, there is no separate mind and matter. I am aware of a MindBody. That is a thing that is living. For example. | |
Meta-ethics: moral realism or moral anti-realism? | Reject both | Reject isms | |
Metaphilosophy: naturalism or non-naturalism? | Reject both | No metas either | |
Mind: physicalism or non-physicalism? | Reject both | MindBody. See previous answer.
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Moral judgment: cognitivism or non-cognitivism? | Reject both | Ni isma. The past is dead and the future unborn | |
Moral motivation: internalism or externalism? | Accept both | What is moral is any action that is good for me and others. [both criteria must be satisfied] | |
Newcomb's problem: one box or two boxes? | Reject both | There is no box in reality. Is an electron a particle or a wave? | |
Normative ethics: deontology, consequentialism, or virtue ethics? | Reject all | In a 'world' where truth is one, what true is what is right. | |
Perceptual experience: disjunctivism, qualia theory, representationalism, or sense-datum theory? | Reject all | See my previous answers, No 'isms'. There is nothing permanent in this world. | |
Personal identity: biological view, psychological view, or further-fact view? | Reject all | A person is MindBody or NameForm. | |
Politics: communitarianism, egalitarianism, or libertarianism? | Reject all | I strictly keep aways from politics. For me religion is also politics | |
Proper names: Fregean or Millian? | Lean toward: Fregean | Millian appears to be a typing mistake.
Somebody might use Fregean with regard to Frege. | |
Science: scientific realism or scientific anti-realism? | Reject both | I accept personl observation. Considered to be true only if it is repeatable. | |
Teletransporter (new matter): survival or death? | Accept: survival | | |
Time: A-theory or B-theory? | Reject both | Time is not relevant. | |
Trolley problem (five straight ahead, one on side track, turn requires switching, what ought one do?): switch or don't switch? | The question is too unclear to answer | This related, I think right hand/ left hand drive.
I would go to closest legal turn. | |
Truth: correspondence, deflationary, or epistemic? | Other | If A makes A statement about the real world to B then if B agrees with it is, assuming both A and B are honest, then the statement is true. | |
Zombies: inconceivable, conceivable but not metaphysically possible, or metaphysically possible? | The question is too unclear to answer | What is the definition of a zombie? | |