| Question |
Answer |
Comments |
| A priori knowledge: yes and no |
Accept: yes |
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| Abstract objects: Platonism and nominalism |
Accept: Platonism |
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| Aesthetic value: objective and subjective |
Accept: objective |
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| Analytic-synthetic distinction: yes and no |
Lean toward: no |
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| Epistemic justification: internalism and externalism |
Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
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| External world: idealism, skepticism or non-skeptical realism |
Accept: idealism |
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| Free will: compatibilism, libertarianism or no free will |
Lean toward: compatibilism |
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| God: theism and atheism |
Accept: theism |
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| Knowledge: empiricism and rationalism |
Accept: rationalism |
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| Knowledge claims: contextualism, relativism or invariantism |
Lean toward: invariantism |
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| Laws of nature: Humean and non-Humean |
Lean toward: non-Humean |
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| Logic: classical and non-classical |
Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
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| Mental content: internalism and externalism |
Lean toward: internalism |
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| Meta-ethics: moral realism and moral anti-realism |
Accept: moral realism |
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| Metaphilosophy: naturalism and non-naturalism |
Lean toward: naturalism |
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| Mind: physicalism and non-physicalism |
Accept: non-physicalism |
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| Moral judgment: cognitivism and non-cognitivism |
Accept: cognitivism |
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| Moral motivation: internalism and externalism |
Agnostic/undecided |
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| Newcomb's problem: one box and two boxes |
Accept: two boxes |
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| Normative ethics: deontology, consequentialism or virtue ethics |
Lean toward: deontology |
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| Perceptual experience: disjunctivism, qualia theory, representationalism or sense-datum theory |
Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
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| Personal identity: biological view, psychological view or further-fact view |
Accept: further-fact view |
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| Politics: communitarianism, egalitarianism or libertarianism |
Accept an intermediate view |
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| Proper names: Fregean and Millian |
Accept: Fregean |
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| Science: scientific realism and scientific anti-realism |
Accept: scientific realism |
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| Teletransporter (new matter): survival and death |
Agnostic/undecided |
Hmmmm....bears a family resemblance to the zombie question, though not as stupid. |
| Time: A-theory and B-theory |
Accept: B-theory |
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| Trolley problem (five straight ahead, one on side track, turn requires switching, what ought one do?): switch and don't switch |
Accept: switch |
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| Truth: correspondence, deflationary or epistemic |
Lean toward: deflationary |
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| Zombies: inconceivable, conceivable but not metaphysically possible or metaphysically possible |
There is no fact of the matter |
Deeply stupid question. |
