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

9 Post author: InquilineKea 11 April 2011 12:40AM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (37)

You are viewing a single comment's thread.

Comment author: JoshuaZ 11 April 2011 05:37:39AM *  1 point [-]

A priori knowledge: yes or no? Yes

Abstract objects: Platonism or nominalism? Unsure it makes sense as normally phrased, but probably 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. (Although I'm not sure I fully understand this question enough to answer)

Free will: compatibilism, libertarianism, or no free will? compatibilism

God: theism or atheism? atheism

Knowledge: empiricism or rationalism? both. Sorry, really. It isn't a good question.

Knowledge claims: contextualism, relativism, or invariantism? Unsure.

Laws of nature: Humean or non-Humean? Unsure

Logic: classical or non-classical? non-classical

Mental content: internalism or externalism? unsure

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

Metaphilosophy: naturalism or non-naturalism? naturalism

Mind: physicalism or non-physicalism? physicalism

Moral judgment: cognitivism or non-cognitivism? cognitivism

Moral motivation: internalism or externalism? unsure

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? sense-datum

Personal identity: biological view, psychological view, or further-fact view? I don't know enough about the issue to comment

Politics: communitarianism, egalitarianism, or libertarianism? Don't know enough.

Proper names: Fregean or Millian? Don't know enough (my limited knowledge says Fregean)

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

Teletransporter (new matter): survival or death? Ill-defined, but probably survival.

Time: A-theory or B-theory? Unsure.

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?

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

Philosopher identified with: Quine.