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Abelard Podgorski

National University of Singapore
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University of Southern California
School of Philosophy
PhD, 2016
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Areas of Specialization
Epistemology
Meta-Ethics
Normative Ethics
Areas of Interest
Epistemology
Philosophy of Action
Applied Ethics
Meta-Ethics
Normative Ethics

My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Lean towards: yes
Abortion Lean towards: permissible
Abstract objects Lean towards: Platonism
Aesthetic experience Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Aesthetic value Agnostic/undecided
Aim of philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Neutral towards wisdom
  • Reject goodness/justice
  • Reject happiness
  • Lean towards truth/knowledge
  • Lean towards understanding
Analysis of knowledge Lean towards: other analysis
Analytic-synthetic distinction Lean towards: yes
Arguments for theism Accept: design
Belief or credence Lean towards: neither
Capital punishment Lean towards: permissible
Causation Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Chinese room Agnostic/undecided
Concepts Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Consciousness Lean towards: functionalism
Continuum hypothesis Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Cosmological fine-tuning Lean towards: multiverse
Eating animals and animal products Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards vegetarianism (no and yes)
  • Reject omnivorism (yes and yes)
  • Lean against veganism (no and no)
Environmental ethics Lean towards: anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Accept: internalism
Experience machine Lean towards: no
Extended mind Accept: yes
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Agnostic/undecided
Foundations of mathematics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Free will Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject libertarianism
  • Lean towards compatibilism
  • Lean against no free will
Gender Lean towards: social
Gender categories Agnostic/undecided
God Accept: atheism
Grounds of intentionality Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Hard problem of consciousness Agnostic/undecided
Human genetic engineering Accept: permissible
Hume Lean towards: skeptic
Immortality Accept: yes
Interlevel metaphysics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Justification Lean towards: nonreliabilist foundationalism
Kant Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Knowledge The question is too unclear to answer
Knowledge claims Accept a combination of answers:
  • Neutral towards contextualism
  • Neutral towards relativism
  • Reject invariantism
Law Lean towards: legal positivism
Laws of nature Lean towards: non-Humean
Logic Agnostic/undecided
Material composition Accept: universalism
Meaning of life Lean towards: subjective
Mental content Lean towards: externalism
Meta-ethics Agnostic/undecided
Metaontology Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Metaphilosophy The question is too unclear to answer
Method in history of philosophy Lean towards: analytic/rational reconstruction
Method in political philosophy Agnostic/undecided
Mind Lean towards: physicalism
Mind uploading Lean towards: survival
Moral judgment Lean towards: cognitivism
Moral motivation Lean towards: externalism
Moral principles Accept: moral generalism
Morality Agnostic/undecided
Newcomb's problem Lean towards: two boxes
Normative concepts Accept: fit
Normative ethics Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject virtue ethics
  • Reject consequentialism
  • Reject deontology
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Accept cats
  • Lean towards fish
  • Neutral towards flies
  • Neutral towards worms
  • Lean against plants
  • Reject particles
  • Accept newborn babies
  • Reject current AI systems
  • Accept future AI systems
Ought implies can Accept: yes
Perceptual experience Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Personal identity Lean towards: psychological view
Philosophical knowledge Lean towards: a lot
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Neutral towards conceptual engineering
  • Neutral towards formal philosophy
  • Lean towards intuition-based philosophy
  • Lean against experimental philosophy
  • Lean against empirical philosophy
  • Neutral towards linguistic philosophy
  • Accept conceptual analysis
Philosophical progress Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards a little
  • Lean against a lot
  • Reject none
Plato Lean towards: knowledge only of forms
Political philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject libertarianism
  • Reject egalitarianism
  • Reject communitarianism
Politics Accept: capitalism
Possible worlds Lean towards: abstract
Practical reason Lean towards: Humean
Principle of sufficient reason Lean towards: false
Proper names Lean towards: Millian
Properties Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Propositional attitudes Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Propositions Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Quantum mechanics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Race Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject unreal
  • Neutral towards biological
  • Neutral towards social
Race categories Agnostic/undecided
Rational disagreement Accept: permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Agnostic/undecided
Science Accept: scientific realism
Semantic content Lean towards: moderate contextualism (intermediate)
Sleeping beauty Agnostic/undecided
Spacetime Agnostic/undecided
Statue and lump Lean towards: two things
Teletransporter Lean towards: survival
Temporal ontology Accept: eternalism
Theory of reference Agnostic/undecided
Time Lean towards: B-theory
Time travel Accept: metaphysically possible
Trolley problem Lean towards: switch
True contradictions Lean towards: impossible
Truth Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject epistemic
  • Lean against deflationary
  • Lean towards correspondence
Units of selection Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Vagueness Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Values in science Agnostic/undecided
Well-being Lean towards: desire satisfaction
Wittgenstein Accept: late
Zombies Lean towards: conceivable but not metaphysically possible