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: yesDepends strictly on the definition of "knowledge" you use. Here I use the definition "knowledge = that which determines subsequent action."
Abstract objects: Platonism or nominalism?The question is too unclear to answer
Aesthetic value: objective or subjective?The question is too unclear to answer
Analytic-synthetic distinction: yes or no?The question is too unclear to answer
Epistemic justification: internalism or externalism?The question is too unclear to answer
External world: idealism, skepticism, or non-skeptical realism?The question is too unclear to answer
Free will: compatibilism, libertarianism, or no free will?The question is too unclear to answer
God: theism or atheism?Reject both
Knowledge: empiricism or rationalism?The question is too unclear to answer
Knowledge claims: contextualism, relativism, or invariantism?The question is too unclear to answer
Laws of nature: Humean or non-Humean?The question is too unclear to answerWhat, exactly, is "non-Humean?"
Logic: classical or non-classical?The question is too unclear to answer
Mental content: internalism or externalism?The question is too unclear to answer
Meta-ethics: moral realism or moral anti-realism?The question is too unclear to answer
Metaphilosophy: naturalism or non-naturalism?Reject both
Mind: physicalism or non-physicalism?The question is too unclear to answerThe term "physicalism" is not qualified. If by "physicalism" you mean "materialism," then no. If you mean "Liberal Physicalism" (Carnap). If you allow for new discoveries in the basis of the world per Carnap, then yes.
Moral judgment: cognitivism or non-cognitivism?The question is too unclear to answer
Moral motivation: internalism or externalism?The question is too unclear to answer
Newcomb's problem: one box or two boxes?Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Normative ethics: deontology, consequentialism, or virtue ethics?The question is too unclear to answer
Perceptual experience: disjunctivism, qualia theory, representationalism, or sense-datum theory?The question is too unclear to answer
Personal identity: biological view, psychological view, or further-fact view?Accept: biological view
Politics: communitarianism, egalitarianism, or libertarianism?The question is too unclear to answer
Proper names: Fregean or Millian?The question is too unclear to answer
Science: scientific realism or scientific anti-realism?The question is too unclear to answer
Teletransporter (new matter): survival or death?The question is too unclear to answer
Time: A-theory or B-theory?The question is too unclear to answer
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?The question is too unclear to answer
Zombies: inconceivable, conceivable but not metaphysically possible, or metaphysically possible?Accept: inconceivable