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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 11 April 2011 06:07:06AM *  2 points [-]

A priori knowledge: yes for mathematics (and possibly priors) only.

Abstract objects: Platonism

Aesthetic value: subjectively objective

Analytic-synthetic distinction: yes, math is analytic, everything else is synthetic

Epistemic justification: externalism

External world: it exists, I assume that's non-skeptical realism

Free will: leaning towards compatibilism

God: Intersubjectively true

Knowledge: empiricism or rationalism? Both, for different types of knowledge.

Knowledge claims: invariantism (although contextualism may have some points)

Laws of nature: Humean or non-Humean? I wasn't able to find a concise summary of what this means.

Logic: classical (with Baysean probability theory, which is derived from classical logic and mathematics, applicable in most cases dealing with non-mathematical objects)

Mental content: internalism or externalism? I can't figure out what this means.

Meta-ethics: moral realism

Metaphilosophy: probably naturalism

Mind: not sure

Moral judgment: cognitivism

Moral motivation: internalism or externalism? I can't figure out what this means

Newcomb's problem: one box

Normative ethics: something like consequential virtue ethics

Perceptual experience: disjunctivism, qualia theory, representationalism, or sense-datum theory? These all seem to be talking about different things.

Personal identity: biological view, psychological view, or further-fact view? Probably further-fact view if it means what I'm guessing it means.

Politics: libertarianism

Proper names: Millian, to the extend this question is at all meaningful

Science: scientific realism (subject to the constrain that our current theories, at least, are as wrong as Newtonian physics)

Teletransporter (new matter): not sure

Time: A-theory or B-theory? This is at best a question of definitions and not a philosophical question.

Trolley problem (five straight ahead, one on side track, turn requires switching, what ought one do?): probably switch but with strong caveats

Truth: probably correspondence

Zombies: conceivable possibly metaphysically possible

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Philisophers: Locke, to a certain extent Mill and maybe Quine (I don't know enough about him to be sure).