Survey: What are your philosphical positions?

<p>Very exciting - I learned SO much philosophy by looking many of these terms up :D</p>

<p>Original</a> Survey Questions | PhilPapers Surveys</p>

<pre><code>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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<p>And... which of the following philosophers do you identify with?</p>

<p>The philosophers available to choose from for the "which philosophers do you identify with?" question were:</p>

<p>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</p>

<p>A priori knowledge: yes or no? Yes
Abstract objects: Platonism or nominalism? nominalism
Aesthetic value: objective or subjective? subjective
Analytic-synthetic distinction: yes or no? No (but I need to look into this more)
Epistemic justification: internalism or externalism? Externalism
External world: idealism, skepticism, or non-skeptical realism? Non-skeptical realism (but sometimes I secretly hope for skepticism)
Free will: compatibilism, libertarianism, or no free will? Split between no free will and compatibilism. Some recent neuroscientists are saying that it can’t exist.
God: theism or atheism? Atheism
Knowledge: empiricism or rationalism? Empiricism
Knowledge claims: contextualism, relativism, or invariantism? Contextualism
Laws of nature: Humean or non-Humean? Humean
Logic: classical or non-classical? Non-classical (<3 fuzzy logic and modal logic)
Mental content: internalism or externalism? Externalism
Meta-ethics: moral realism or moral anti-realism? Moral anti-realism
Metaphilosophy: naturalism or non-naturalism? Naturalism
Mind: physicalism or non-physicalism? Physicalism
Moral judgment: cognitivism or non-cognitivism? Non-cognitivism
Moral motivation: internalism or externalism? Externalism
Newcomb’s problem: one box or two boxes? Two boxes
Normative ethics: deontology, consequentialism, or virtue ethics? Consequentialism
Perceptual experience: disjunctivism, qualia theory, representationalism, or sense-datum theory? Probably representationalism
Personal identity: biological view, psychological view, or further-fact view? Probably psychological, but it has its flaws
Politics: communitarianism, egalitarianism, or libertarianism? Libertarianism
Proper names: Fregean or Millian? Fregean
Science: scientific realism or scientific anti-realism? Scientific realism
Teletransporter (new matter): survival or death? Death :frowning:
Time: A-theory or B-theory? Was A-theory; Sean Carroll of Cosmic Variance now has me split
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 not metaphysically possible</p>

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<p>And for philosophers I identify with: Probably Nietzsche, Hume, and Russell.</p>

<p>A priori knowledge: yes or no? Probably
Abstract objects: Platonism or nominalism?
Aesthetic value: objective or subjective?
Analytic-synthetic distinction: yes or no? Too ignorant on the subject to answer
Epistemic justification: internalism or externalism?
External world: idealism, skepticism, or non-skeptical realism? Doesn’t matter
Free will: compatibilism, libertarianism, or no free will?
God: theism or atheism?
Knowledge: empiricism or rationalism?
Knowledge claims: contextualism, relativism,[kinda both] or invariantism?
Laws of nature: Humeanor non-Humean?
Logic: classical or non-classical? Don’t know enough
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–but I don’t see this as relevant to my philosophy, but as to how I read the problem. or two boxes?
Normative ethics: deontology, consequentialism, or virtue ethics?
Perceptual experience: disjunctivism, qualia theory, representationalism, or sense-datum theory [I think; I don’t know much about these]?
Personal identity: biological view, psychological view [again, not well-informed, 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 [picked a position after skimming for a minute 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? Don’t know the problem, don’t feel like reading it</p>