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Comment author: hwc 18 April 2011 01:24:33AM *  0 points [-]
  • A priori knowledge: yes or no? No
  • Abstract objects: Platonism or nominalism? Platonism for mathematical objects, otherwise non-platonic
  • Aesthetic value: objective or subjective? subjective
  • Analytic-synthetic distinction: yes or no? I don't know what that means.
  • Epistemic justification: internalism or externalism? I don't know what that means.
  • External world: idealism, skepticism, or non-skeptical realism? I don't know what that means.
  • Free will: compatibilism, libertarianism, or no free will? compatibilism, if I understand the definition
  • God: theism or atheism? atheism
  • Knowledge: empiricism or rationalism? I don't know what that means.
  • Knowledge claims: contextualism, relativism, or invariantism? I don't know what that means.
  • Laws of nature: Humean or non-Humean? I don't know what that means.
  • Logic: classical or non-classical? I don't know what that means.
  • Mental content: internalism or externalism? I don't know what that means.
  • Meta-ethics: moral realism or moral anti-realism? I have not made up my mind.
  • Metaphilosophy: naturalism or non-naturalism? I don't know what that means.
  • Mind: physicalism or non-physicalism? physicalism
  • Moral judgment: cognitivism or non-cognitivism? I don't know what that means.
  • Moral motivation: internalism or externalism? I don't know what that means.
  • Newcomb's problem: one box or two boxes? If I believe that Omega really knows me, one box.
  • Normative ethics: deontology, consequentialism, or virtue ethics? consequentialism, with the caveat that the human mind can't do consequentialism well and must substitute rules of thumb.
  • Perceptual experience: disjunctivism, qualia theory, representationalism, or sense-datum theory? I don't know what that means.
  • Personal identity: biological view, psychological view, or further-fact view? I don't know what that means.
  • Politics: communitarianism, egalitarianism, or libertarianism? a balance of the three, depending on what produces the best results
  • Proper names: Fregean or Millian? I don't know what that means.
  • Science: scientific realism or scientific anti-realism? realism, if I understand the question
  • Teletransporter (new matter): survival or death? survival, but it feels scary none-the-less
  • Time: A-theory or B-theory? I don't know what that means.
  • Trolley problem (five straight ahead, one on side track, turn requires switching, what ought one do?): switch or don't switch? switch, but it still feels wrong
  • Truth: correspondence, deflationary, or epistemic? I don't know what that means.
  • Zombies: inconceivable, conceivable but not metaphysically possible, or metaphysically possible? I don't know the difference between "inconceivable" and "not metaphysically possible".
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