Harry R. Lloyd

hrl [at] unc [dot] edu

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My Philosophical Views


Metaphilosophy

  • Philosophical schools
    • Accept analytic philosophy
    • Reject continental philosophy
  • Philosophical objectives
    • Lean towards conceptual analysis

Normative ethics

  • Theories of ethics
    • Accept consequentialism
      • Lean towards desertism
      • Lean towards scalar consequentialism
  • Choice under risk
    • Lean towards objectivism

Value theory

  • Wellbeing
    • Accept quantitative hedonism
  • Population ethics
    • Accept totalism
    • Accept the Repugnant Conclusion
  • Incommensurability
    • Accept epistemicism

Practical ethics

  • Animal moral status
    • Accept unitarianism
  • Future generations
    • Reject pure time preference
    • Lean towards longtermism

Political philosophy

  • Ideologies
    • Accept moderate libertarianism
  • Private property
    • Lean towards Georgism

Philosophy of law

  • Criminal punishment
    • Accept retribution
    • Accept deterrence
    • Accept rehabilitation
  • Forms of punishment
    • Lean towards capital punishment
    • Lean towards corporal punishment

Meta-ethics

  • Semantics
    • Accept cognitivism
  • Ontology
    • Accept realism
  • Motivation
    • Lean towards motive externalism

Metaphysics

  • Personal identity
    • Lean towards soul theory
  • Vagueness
    • Lean towards continuum-valuationism

Philosophy of mind

  • Hard problem of consciousness
    • Lean towards substance dualism
  • Distribution of consciousness
    • Lean towards panpsychism
  • Mind-body problem
    • Lean towards epiphenomenalism

Epistemology

  • Reasons for belief
    • Accept pragmatism
  • Induction
    • Lean towards pragmatism

Philosophy of religion

  • Existence of God
    • Accept atheism