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? | The question is too unclear to answer | | |
Abstract objects: Platonism or nominalism? | Accept another alternative | This is a CHOICE? | |
Aesthetic value: objective or subjective? | Reject both | | |
Analytic-synthetic distinction: yes or no? | Skip | | |
Epistemic justification: internalism or externalism? | Skip | | |
External world: idealism, skepticism, or non-skeptical realism? | Skip | | |
Free will: compatibilism, libertarianism, or no free will? | The question is too unclear to answer | Libertarianism is adolescent greedy junk | |
God: theism or atheism? | Accept: atheism | | |
Knowledge: empiricism or rationalism? | Accept another alternative | Conventional and conformist information regimen | |
Knowledge claims: contextualism, relativism, or invariantism? | Lean toward: contextualism | | |
Laws of nature: Humean or non-Humean? | Accept another alternative | Self organizing | |
Logic: classical or non-classical? | Reject both | Post-Hegelian Deconstructive | |
Mental content: internalism or externalism? | Skip | | |
Meta-ethics: moral realism or moral anti-realism? | Skip | | |
Metaphilosophy: naturalism or non-naturalism? | Reject both | WHAT? | |
Mind: physicalism or non-physicalism? | Accept: non-physicalism | Idiotic notion | |
Moral judgment: cognitivism or non-cognitivism? | Accept: non-cognitivism | | |
Moral motivation: internalism or externalism? | Accept another alternative | Aspirational | |
Newcomb's problem: one box or two boxes? | Insufficiently familiar with the issue | | |
Normative ethics: deontology, consequentialism, or virtue ethics? | Skip | | |
Perceptual experience: disjunctivism, qualia theory, representationalism, or sense-datum theory? | Accept another alternative | Post phenomenological | |
Personal identity: biological view, psychological view, or further-fact view? | Accept another alternative | Generative, aspirational | |
Politics: communitarianism, egalitarianism, or libertarianism? | Accept another alternative | generative | |
Proper names: Fregean or Millian? | Skip | | |
Science: scientific realism or scientific anti-realism? | Reject both | | |
Teletransporter (new matter): survival or death? | Skip | | |
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? | Other | Could not be less interested | |
Truth: correspondence, deflationary, or epistemic? | Accept another alternative | Generative pragmatic (Jamesian) | |
Zombies: inconceivable, conceivable but not metaphysically possible, or metaphysically possible? | Skip | | |