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: yesMy views on a priori knowledge resemble those of Gödel.
Abstract objects: Platonism or nominalism?Lean toward: PlatonismLike that of Cantor and Gödel
Aesthetic value: objective or subjective?Accept: objective
Analytic-synthetic distinction: yes or no?Accept another alternativeI endorse Quine's approach
Epistemic justification: internalism or externalism?Insufficiently familiar with the issue
External world: idealism, skepticism, or non-skeptical realism?Accept: non-skeptical realismincluding Gödel's mathematical realism
Free will: compatibilism, libertarianism, or no free will?Lean toward: compatibilism
God: theism or atheism?Lean toward: theismI mean theism in Cantor-style
Knowledge: empiricism or rationalism?Accept: rationalismWhat I really believe can be called empirio-rationalism in a pragmatist vein.
Knowledge claims: contextualism, relativism, or invariantism?Lean toward: contextualism
Laws of nature: Humean or non-Humean?Lean toward: non-Humean
Logic: classical or non-classical?Accept: classical
Mental content: internalism or externalism?Lean toward: externalism
Meta-ethics: moral realism or moral anti-realism?Lean toward: moral realism
Metaphilosophy: naturalism or non-naturalism?Lean toward: non-naturalismin Gödel's spirit
Mind: physicalism or non-physicalism?Lean toward: non-physicalismIn this question, I follow Gödel's arguments
Moral judgment: cognitivism or non-cognitivism?Accept another alternativeI accept Gödel's 1931 and Turing's 1939 approach
Moral motivation: internalism or externalism?Lean toward: externalism
Newcomb's problem: one box or two boxes?Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Normative ethics: deontology, consequentialism, or virtue ethics?Accept another alternativeI do not think that consequentialism has to oppose deontology, as one may choose between consequences being led by a sense of duty.
Perceptual experience: disjunctivism, qualia theory, representationalism, or sense-datum theory?Skip
Personal identity: biological view, psychological view, or further-fact view?Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Politics: communitarianism, egalitarianism, or libertarianism?Accept more than one
Proper names: Fregean or Millian?Lean toward: Fregean
Science: scientific realism or scientific anti-realism?Accept: scientific realism
Teletransporter (new matter): survival or death?The question is too unclear to answer
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?Lean toward: correspondencein Tarski's sense
Zombies: inconceivable, conceivable but not metaphysically possible, or metaphysically possible?The question is too unclear to answer