Abstract objects: Platonism or nominalism? Platonism
Aesthetic value: objective or subjective? Objective
Analytic-synthetic distinction: yes or no? Yes
Epistemic justification: internalism or externalism? Boils down to definitions
External world: idealism, skepticism, or non-skeptical realism? Non-skeptical realism
Free will: compatibilism, libertarianism, or no free will? Compatibilism
God: theism or atheism? Atheism
Knowledge: empiricism or rationalism? Both
Knowledge claims: contextualism, relativism, or invariantism? Not sure
Laws of nature: Humean or non-Humean? non-Humean
Logic: classical or non-classical? Classical
Mental content: internalism or externalism? Externalism (but perhaps this boils down to definitions)
Meta-ethics: moral realism or moral anti-realism? Realism
Metaphilosophy: naturalism or non-naturalism? Not sure
Mind: physicalism or non-physicalism? Physicalism
Moral judgment: cognitivism or non-cognitivism? Cognitivism
Moral motivation: internalism or externalism? Not sure
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? None of the above
Personal identity: biological view, psychological view, or further-fact view? The psychological view should guide practical decisions, as far as possible, but ultimately there’s no ‘fact of the matter’.
Politics: communitarianism, egalitarianism, or libertarianism? Egalitarianism
Proper names: Fregean or Millian? Not sure
Science: scientific realism or scientific anti-realism? Realism
Teletransporter (new matter): survival or death? Question is wrong
Time: A-theory or B-theory? Either B-theory or question is wrong (depending on what picture of time emerges in quantum gravity)
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? Inconceivable
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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: (People will think I don’t rate philosophers very highly unless I pick one so) Wittgenstein (but I have massive disagreements with him.)
A priori knowledge: yes or no? Yes
Abstract objects: Platonism or nominalism? Platonism
Aesthetic value: objective or subjective? Objective
Analytic-synthetic distinction: yes or no? Yes
Epistemic justification: internalism or externalism? Boils down to definitions
External world: idealism, skepticism, or non-skeptical realism? Non-skeptical realism
Free will: compatibilism, libertarianism, or no free will? Compatibilism
God: theism or atheism? Atheism
Knowledge: empiricism or rationalism? Both
Knowledge claims: contextualism, relativism, or invariantism? Not sure
Laws of nature: Humean or non-Humean? non-Humean
Logic: classical or non-classical? Classical
Mental content: internalism or externalism? Externalism (but perhaps this boils down to definitions)
Meta-ethics: moral realism or moral anti-realism? Realism
Metaphilosophy: naturalism or non-naturalism? Not sure
Mind: physicalism or non-physicalism? Physicalism
Moral judgment: cognitivism or non-cognitivism? Cognitivism
Moral motivation: internalism or externalism? Not sure
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? None of the above
Personal identity: biological view, psychological view, or further-fact view? The psychological view should guide practical decisions, as far as possible, but ultimately there’s no ‘fact of the matter’.
Politics: communitarianism, egalitarianism, or libertarianism? Egalitarianism
Proper names: Fregean or Millian? Not sure
Science: scientific realism or scientific anti-realism? Realism
Teletransporter (new matter): survival or death? Question is wrong
Time: A-theory or B-theory? Either B-theory or question is wrong (depending on what picture of time emerges in quantum gravity)
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? Inconceivable
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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: (People will think I don’t rate philosophers very highly unless I pick one so) Wittgenstein (but I have massive disagreements with him.)