Objective. I use a theory of subject-*independent sense-data to justify my aesthetic theories.
Analytic-synthetic distinction: yes or no?
Yes.
Epistemic justification: internalism or externalism?
Internalism. Epistemic justificaiton is conferred in propositional attitudes.
External world: idealism, skepticism, or non-skeptical realism?
Idealism. Panprotoexperientialism combined with objective idealism; the external world is comprised of bits of latent phenomenal experience. Non-ideal independent universals inhere in the nature of reality, and are causally responsible for our innate capacity for properly rational thought or our a priori faculties in a quasi-Hegelian sense.
Free will: compatibilism, libertarianism, or no free will?
Libertarianism.
God: theism or atheism?
Atheism.
Knowledge: empiricism or rationalism?
Rationalism.
Knowledge claims: contextualism, relativism, or invariantism?
Invariantism.
Laws of nature: Humean or non-Humean?
*There is no fact of the matter. Anti-realism about natural laws.
Logic: classical or non-classical?
Classical.
Mental content: internalism or externalism?
Internalism.
Meta-ethics: moral realism or moral anti-realism?
Moral relaism.
Metaphilosophy: naturalism or non-naturalism?
Non-naturalism.
Mind: physicalism or non-physicalism?
Non-physicalism.
Moral judgment: cognitivism or non-cognitivism?
Cognitivism
Moral motivation: internalism or externalism?
Internalism.
Newcomb’s problem: one box or two boxes?
One box.
Normative ethics: deontology, consequentialism, or virtue ethics?
Accept another alternative. *A quasi-utilitarian approach to normative ethics that takes into account virtue, duty, and consequence.
Perceptual experience: disjunctivism, qualia theory, representationalism, or sense-datum theory?
Sense-datum theory.
Personal identity: biological view, psychological view, or further-fact view?
Furhter-fact view.
Politics: communitarianism, egalitarianism, or libertarianism?
Libertarianism.
Proper names: Fregean or Millian?
Accept another alternative**. A metalinguistic approach to descriptivism*.
Science: scientific realism or scientific anti-realism?
Scientific anti-realism.
Teletransporter (new matter): survival or death?
Death.
Time: A-theory or B-theory?
A-theory.
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?
Conceivable, but metaphysically impossible. Note that they would be metaphysically possible under a common-sense dualist ontology.
A priori knowledge: yes or no?
Yes.
Abstract objects: Platonism or nominalism?
Platonism. Full-fledged platonic realism.
Aesthetic value: objective or subjective?
Objective. I use a theory of subject-*independent sense-data to justify my aesthetic theories.
Analytic-synthetic distinction: yes or no?
Yes.
Epistemic justification: internalism or externalism?
Internalism. Epistemic justificaiton is conferred in propositional attitudes.
External world: idealism, skepticism, or non-skeptical realism?
Idealism. Panprotoexperientialism combined with objective idealism; the external world is comprised of bits of latent phenomenal experience. Non-ideal independent universals inhere in the nature of reality, and are causally responsible for our innate capacity for properly rational thought or our a priori faculties in a quasi-Hegelian sense.
Free will: compatibilism, libertarianism, or no free will?
Libertarianism.
God: theism or atheism?
Atheism.
Knowledge: empiricism or rationalism?
Rationalism.
Knowledge claims: contextualism, relativism, or invariantism?
Invariantism.
Laws of nature: Humean or non-Humean?
*There is no fact of the matter. Anti-realism about natural laws.
Logic: classical or non-classical?
Classical.
Mental content: internalism or externalism?
Internalism.
Meta-ethics: moral realism or moral anti-realism?
Moral relaism.
Metaphilosophy: naturalism or non-naturalism?
Non-naturalism.
Mind: physicalism or non-physicalism?
Non-physicalism.
Moral judgment: cognitivism or non-cognitivism?
Cognitivism
Moral motivation: internalism or externalism?
Internalism.
Newcomb’s problem: one box or two boxes?
One box.
Normative ethics: deontology, consequentialism, or virtue ethics?
Accept another alternative. *A quasi-utilitarian approach to normative ethics that takes into account virtue, duty, and consequence.
Perceptual experience: disjunctivism, qualia theory, representationalism, or sense-datum theory?
Sense-datum theory.
Personal identity: biological view, psychological view, or further-fact view?
Furhter-fact view.
Politics: communitarianism, egalitarianism, or libertarianism?
Libertarianism.
Proper names: Fregean or Millian?
Accept another alternative**. A metalinguistic approach to descriptivism*.
Science: scientific realism or scientific anti-realism?
Scientific anti-realism.
Teletransporter (new matter): survival or death?
Death.
Time: A-theory or B-theory?
A-theory.
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?
Conceivable, but metaphysically impossible. Note that they would be metaphysically possible under a common-sense dualist ontology.
What philosopher do you identify with?
G.E. Moore.