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: yesIt's hard to see how any kind of realism can be justified apart from it.
Abstract objects: Platonism or nominalism?Accept: nominalism
Aesthetic value: objective or subjective?Lean toward: objectiveSeems plausible given theism.
Analytic-synthetic distinction: yes or no?Accept: yes
Epistemic justification: internalism or externalism?Lean toward: internalismPerhaps externalist on knowledge, but certainly internalist on justification.
External world: idealism, skepticism, or non-skeptical realism?Accept: non-skeptical realismAgain, seems plausible on theism.
Free will: compatibilism, libertarianism, or no free will?Lean toward: compatibilismOnly a very weak leaning.
God: theism or atheism?Accept: theismGod probably exists and probably raised Jesus from the dead.
Knowledge: empiricism or rationalism?Accept: rationalismHard to see how any realist claims can be made on empiricism.
Knowledge claims: contextualism, relativism, or invariantism?Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Laws of nature: Humean or non-Humean?Accept: non-HumeanMuch better explanations available than that laws are just descriptions of what happens.
Logic: classical or non-classical?Accept: classical
Mental content: internalism or externalism?Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Meta-ethics: moral realism or moral anti-realism?Accept: moral realism
Metaphilosophy: naturalism or non-naturalism?The question is too unclear to answer"Naturalism" changes meaning every few decades.
Mind: physicalism or non-physicalism?The question is too unclear to answer"Physicalism" also changes meaning every few decades.
Moral judgment: cognitivism or non-cognitivism?Accept: cognitivism
Moral motivation: internalism or externalism?Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Newcomb's problem: one box or two boxes?Accept: one boxPredictor is probably right. Expected utility = huge.
Normative ethics: deontology, consequentialism, or virtue ethics?Lean toward: virtue ethics
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: further-fact view
Politics: communitarianism, egalitarianism, or libertarianism?Agnostic/undecidedRaging conservative in the UK, raging liberal in the US.
Proper names: Fregean or Millian?Lean toward: Fregean
Science: scientific realism or scientific anti-realism?Accept: scientific realismAgain, seems plausible on theism.
Teletransporter (new matter): survival or death?Lean toward: death
Time: A-theory or B-theory?Agnostic/undecided
Trolley problem (five straight ahead, one on side track, turn requires switching, what ought one do?): switch or don't switch?There is no fact of the matterDepends partly on intentions, and so on. But those issues set aside, one is morally justified whatever one chooses.
Truth: correspondence, deflationary, or epistemic?Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Zombies: inconceivable, conceivable but not metaphysically possible, or metaphysically possible?Accept: metaphysically possible