Abstract objects: Platonism or nominalism? Either, depending whether the second vowel has rising or falling intonation
Aesthetic value: objective or subjective? Subjective
Analytic-synthetic distinction: yes or no? Yes
Epistemic justification: internalism or externalism? Internalism
External world: idealism, skepticism, or non-skeptical realism? Skepticism. I haven’t been able to take realism seriously since I left Hogwarts.
Free will: compatibilism, libertarianism, or no free will? No free will
God: theism or atheism? Atheism
Knowledge: empiricism or rationalism? Empiricism
Knowledge claims: contextualism, relativism, or invariantism? Can be any of these, or something else entirely, depending on the specific knowledge and how it interacts with the relevant interdicts
Laws of nature: Humean or non-Humean? Non-Humean
Logic: classical or non-classical? Classical
Mental content: internalism or externalism? Internalism
Meta-ethics: moral realism or moral anti-realism? Moral anti-realism
Metaphilosophy: naturalism or non-naturalism? Naturalism
Mind: physicalism or non-physicalism? Depends whose mind we’re talking about
Moral judgment: cognitivism or non-cognitivism? Non-cognitivism
Moral motivation: internalism or externalism? Externalism
Newcomb’s problem: one box or two boxes? The first box twice
Normative ethics: deontology, consequentialism, or virtue ethics? Consequentialism
Perceptual experience: disjunctivism, qualia theory, representationalism, or sense-datum theory? Sense-datum theory
Personal identity: biological view, psychological view, or further-fact view? Further-fact view
Politics: communitarianism, egalitarianism, or libertarianism? Snicker
Proper names: Fregean or Millian? It’s more complicated than that (some names are pointers, some are independent entities, and some can even communicate in binary by agreeing or disagreeing with a sequence of pronouns)
Science: scientific realism or scientific anti-realism? Realism with some caveats
Teletransporter (new matter): survival or death? Survival
Time: A-theory or B-theory? Neither. These both claim the past and future are disjoint. What the fuck?
Trolley problem (five straight ahead, one on side track, turn requires switching, what ought one do?): switch or don’t switch? Varies depending on mood
Truth: correspondence, deflationary, or epistemic? Correspondence
Zombies: inconceivable, conceivable but not metaphysically possible, or metaphysically possible? Actual
I found this comment while wandering the archives and was surprised, in that context, that it didn’t have more upvotes. Clicking through, I see that the playing field was relatively level and many upvotes would have been contextually unnecessary.
(Part of my personal enjoyment grew from the implicit dynamics between this copy of Quirinus and the most likely host of this copy of Quirinus. Too bad Clippy posts so rarely… it would be interesting to see that set of answers as well.)
A priori knowledge: yes or no? Yes
Abstract objects: Platonism or nominalism? Either, depending whether the second vowel has rising or falling intonation
Aesthetic value: objective or subjective? Subjective
Analytic-synthetic distinction: yes or no? Yes
Epistemic justification: internalism or externalism? Internalism
External world: idealism, skepticism, or non-skeptical realism? Skepticism. I haven’t been able to take realism seriously since I left Hogwarts.
Free will: compatibilism, libertarianism, or no free will? No free will
God: theism or atheism? Atheism
Knowledge: empiricism or rationalism? Empiricism
Knowledge claims: contextualism, relativism, or invariantism? Can be any of these, or something else entirely, depending on the specific knowledge and how it interacts with the relevant interdicts
Laws of nature: Humean or non-Humean? Non-Humean
Logic: classical or non-classical? Classical
Mental content: internalism or externalism? Internalism
Meta-ethics: moral realism or moral anti-realism? Moral anti-realism
Metaphilosophy: naturalism or non-naturalism? Naturalism
Mind: physicalism or non-physicalism? Depends whose mind we’re talking about
Moral judgment: cognitivism or non-cognitivism? Non-cognitivism
Moral motivation: internalism or externalism? Externalism
Newcomb’s problem: one box or two boxes? The first box twice
Normative ethics: deontology, consequentialism, or virtue ethics? Consequentialism
Perceptual experience: disjunctivism, qualia theory, representationalism, or sense-datum theory? Sense-datum theory
Personal identity: biological view, psychological view, or further-fact view? Further-fact view
Politics: communitarianism, egalitarianism, or libertarianism? Snicker
Proper names: Fregean or Millian? It’s more complicated than that (some names are pointers, some are independent entities, and some can even communicate in binary by agreeing or disagreeing with a sequence of pronouns)
Science: scientific realism or scientific anti-realism? Realism with some caveats
Teletransporter (new matter): survival or death? Survival
Time: A-theory or B-theory? Neither. These both claim the past and future are disjoint. What the fuck?
Trolley problem (five straight ahead, one on side track, turn requires switching, what ought one do?): switch or don’t switch? Varies depending on mood
Truth: correspondence, deflationary, or epistemic? Correspondence
Zombies: inconceivable, conceivable but not metaphysically possible, or metaphysically possible? Actual
I found this comment while wandering the archives and was surprised, in that context, that it didn’t have more upvotes. Clicking through, I see that the playing field was relatively level and many upvotes would have been contextually unnecessary.
(Part of my personal enjoyment grew from the implicit dynamics between this copy of Quirinus and the most likely host of this copy of Quirinus. Too bad Clippy posts so rarely… it would be interesting to see that set of answers as well.)