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?Skip
Abstract objects: Platonism or nominalism?Accept: Platonism
Aesthetic value: objective or subjective?Skip
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?Skip
God: theism or atheism?Lean toward: atheism
Knowledge: empiricism or rationalism?Skip
Knowledge claims: contextualism, relativism, or invariantism?Skip
Laws of nature: Humean or non-Humean?Skip
Logic: classical or non-classical?Lean toward: classicalI don't know what "Accept" is supposed to mean here, but I do have a strong *preference* for classical logic.
Mental content: internalism or externalism?Skip
Meta-ethics: moral realism or moral anti-realism?Skip
Metaphilosophy: naturalism or non-naturalism?Skip
Mind: physicalism or non-physicalism?Skip
Moral judgment: cognitivism or non-cognitivism?Skip
Moral motivation: internalism or externalism?Skip
Newcomb's problem: one box or two boxes?The question is too unclear to answerProblem is too vague and the correct answer depends on how it's precisified.
Normative ethics: deontology, consequentialism, or virtue ethics?Lean toward: consequentialism
Perceptual experience: disjunctivism, qualia theory, representationalism, or sense-datum theory?Skip
Personal identity: biological view, psychological view, or further-fact view?Skip
Politics: communitarianism, egalitarianism, or libertarianism?Skip
Proper names: Fregean or Millian?Skip
Science: scientific realism or scientific anti-realism?Accept: scientific realism
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?Accept: switch
Truth: correspondence, deflationary, or epistemic?Skip
Zombies: inconceivable, conceivable but not metaphysically possible, or metaphysically possible?Skip