InquilineKea comments on How would you respond to the Philpapers "What are your Philosophical Positions" Survey? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: InquilineKea 11 April 2011 12:42:06AM *  1 point [-]

Here are mine:

A priori knowledge: yes or no? Probably, leaning towards yes (edited)

Abstract objects: Platonism or nominalism? nominalism

Aesthetic value: objective or subjective? subjective

Analytic-synthetic distinction: yes or no? No

Epistemic justification: internalism or externalism? Externalism

External world: idealism, skepticism, or non-skeptical realism? Non-skeptical realism (but sometimes I secretly hope for skepticism)

Free will: compatibilism, libertarianism, or no free will? Split between no free will and compatibilism.

God: theism or atheism? Atheism

Knowledge: empiricism or rationalism? Empiricism

Knowledge claims: contextualism, relativism, or invariantism? Contextualism

Laws of nature: Humean or non-Humean? Humean

Logic: classical or non-classical? Non-classical (<3 fuzzy logic and modal logic)

Mental content: internalism or externalism? Externalism

Meta-ethics: moral realism or moral anti-realism? Moral anti-realism

Metaphilosophy: naturalism or non-naturalism? Naturalism

Mind: physicalism or non-physicalism? Physicalism

Moral judgment: cognitivism or non-cognitivism? Non-cognitivism

Moral motivation: internalism or externalism? Externalism

Newcomb's problem: one box or two boxes? One box

Normative ethics: deontology, consequentialism, or virtue ethics? Consequentialism

Perceptual experience: disjunctivism, qualia theory, representationalism, or sense-datum theory? Probably representationalism

Personal identity: biological view, psychological view, or further-fact view? Probably psychological, but it has its flaws

Politics: communitarianism, egalitarianism, or libertarianism? Libertarianism

Proper names: Fregean or Millian? Fregean

Science: scientific realism or scientific anti-realism? Scientific realism

Teletransporter (new matter): survival or death? Death

Time: A-theory or B-theory? Leaning towards B-theory

Trolley problem (five straight ahead, one on side track, turn requires switching, what ought one do?): switch or don't switch? Switch

Truth: correspondence, deflationary, or epistemic? Correspondence

Zombies: inconceivable, conceivable but not metaphysically possible, or metaphysically possible? conceivable but not metaphysically possible

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And for philosophers I identify with: Probably Nietzsche, Hume, and Russell.

Comment author: Gray 11 April 2011 04:48:33AM 1 point [-]

Glad to see some respect for Nietzsche around here. I don't think most people truly understand what this philosopher was about.

Comment author: InquilineKea 11 April 2011 05:04:28AM 0 points [-]

Ah yes, I definitely agree with you. I don't think of Nietzsche as a philosopher - rather - I think of him more as a social analyst with penetrating insight.