A priori knowledge: yes or no?
Yes, given axioms.
Abstract objects: Platonism or nominalism?
Don't know.
Aesthetic value: objective or subjective?
Both.
Analytic-synthetic distinction: yes or no?
Don't know.
Epistemic justification: internalism or externalism?
Um. Don't know,
External world: idealism, skepticism, or non-skeptical realism?
Non-skeptical realism. If it means what it sounds like it means.
Free will: compatibilism, libertarianism, or no free will?
It's a stupid term. 'Compatibilism' probably.
God: theism or atheism?
a-
Knowledge: empiricism or rationalism?
Stupid question. But the latter to the extent that there is a difference and possibly the former if their is some implied definition of 'rationalism' that somehow excludes empiricism.
Knowledge claims: contextualism, relativism, or invariantism?
Don't know.
Laws of nature: Humean or non-Humean?
Don't know.
Logic: classical or non-classical?
I like logic.
Mental content: internalism or externalism?
Still not terms with which I construct my intellectual identity.
Meta-ethics: moral realism or moral anti-realism?
Realism - but quite probably closer to naive anti-realism than naive 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?
Internal, at a guess.
Newcomb's problem: one box or two boxes?
Oooh, a question that actually refers to an actual (counterfactual) decision instead of annoying 'isms' that I don't care about. One!
Normative ethics: deontology, consequentialism, or virtue ethics?
Consequentialism. Mostly.
Perceptual experience: disjunctivism, qualia theory, representationalism, or sense-datum theory?
Death to qualia theory. That is all.
Personal identity: biological view, psychological view, or further-fact view?
Hmm... I'm guessing the further fact view. Not because I know what it is but because the other two options aren't quite sufficient.
Politics: communitarianism, egalitarianism, or libertarianism?
Hmmm.... closer to the libertarianism than the other two. But certainly not enough to identify as libertarian.
Proper names: Fregean or Millian?
No idea.
Science: scientific realism or scientific anti-realism?
Teletransporter (new matter): survival or death?
Survival.
Time: A-theory or B-theory?
Oh come one... at least word length labels give me a chance at guessing which philosophical position resolves to sane. A and B give me almost nothing!
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?
Epistemic?
Zombies: inconceivable, conceivable but not metaphysically possible, or metaphysically possible?
Inconceivable (although I can conceive of the mental state of a philosopher who professes belief in zombies.)
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And... which of the following philosophers do you identify with?
None of them. I don't identify as a philosopher. I'm told that Quine thought sane things though so I wouldn't be insulted by the comparison. Many of those names have an aversive association to me due to the way they quoted by 'intellectuals'.
My takeaway from this post: Lesswrong is not an offshoot of mainstream philosophy. If it was I wouldn't be able to understand everything on it while at the same time being unfamiliar with the countless isms that make up 'philosophy'.
Time: A-theory or B-theory?
Oh come one... at least word length labels give me a chance at guessing which philosophical position resolves to sane. A and B give me almost nothing!
The A-theory is identified with the view that "becoming" is somehow fundamental to the nature of the universe, and that it's not just an illusion created by, say, our only having memories of times t < t0 at time t0. A-theorists hold that, in some ultimate sense, points in time change their ontological status as they transition from the future, to the present, and...
The questions are at http://philpapers.org/surveys/oquestions.html. The correlations can be intensely interesting to those who understand philosophical jargon (http://philpapers.org/surveys/linear_most.pl) - it doesn't take too long to look them up as you go - and I actually found it to be a fun way to learn new philosophy. I know that there was a LW thread about this several months ago, but it didn't have a section for people here to respond to the survey. I would be very interested to see how people here would respond.
I'll repost the questions here:
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Original Survey Questions | PhilPapers Surveys
A priori knowledge: yes or no?
Abstract objects: Platonism or nominalism?
Aesthetic value: objective or subjective?
Analytic-synthetic distinction: yes or no?
Epistemic justification: internalism or externalism?
External world: idealism, skepticism, or non-skeptical realism?
Free will: compatibilism, libertarianism, or no free will?
God: theism or atheism?
Knowledge: empiricism or rationalism?
Knowledge claims: contextualism, relativism, or invariantism?
Laws of nature: Humean or non-Humean?
Logic: classical or non-classical?
Mental content: internalism or externalism?
Meta-ethics: moral realism or moral anti-realism?
Metaphilosophy: naturalism or non-naturalism?
Mind: physicalism or non-physicalism?
Moral judgment: cognitivism or non-cognitivism?
Moral motivation: internalism or externalism?
Newcomb's problem: one box or two boxes?
Normative ethics: deontology, consequentialism, or virtue ethics?
Perceptual experience: disjunctivism, qualia theory, representationalism, or sense-datum theory?
Personal identity: biological view, psychological view, or further-fact view?
Politics: communitarianism, egalitarianism, or libertarianism?
Proper names: Fregean or Millian?
Science: scientific realism or scientific anti-realism?
Teletransporter (new matter): survival or death?
Time: A-theory or B-theory?
Trolley problem (five straight ahead, one on side track, turn requires switching, what ought one do?): switch or don't switch?
Truth: correspondence, deflationary, or epistemic?
Zombies: inconceivable, conceivable but not metaphysically possible, or metaphysically possible?
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And... which of the following philosophers do you identify with?
The philosophers available to choose from for the "which philosophers do you identify with?" question were:
Anscombe
Aquinas
Aristotle
Augustine
Berkeley
Carnap
Davidson
Descartes
Frege
Hegel
Heidegger
Hobbes
Hume
Husserl
Kant
Kierkegaard
Leibniz
Lewis
Locke
Marx
Mill
Moore
Nietzsche
Plato
Quine
Rawls
Rousseau
Russell
Socrates
Spinoza
Wittgenstein