My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Lean towards: no
Abortion The question is too unclear to answer
Abstract objects Accept an alternative view: Pythagoreanism
Aesthetic experience Lean towards: perception
Aesthetic value Accept: objective
Aim of philosophy 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: credence
Capital punishment Accept: impermissible
Causation Lean towards: counterfactual/difference-making
Chinese room Lean towards: understands
Concepts Lean towards: empiricism
Consciousness Accept: functionalism
Continuum hypothesis Lean towards: determinate
Cosmological fine-tuning Accept: multiverse
Eating animals and animal products Accept: vegetarianism (no and yes)
Environmental ethics Accept: non-anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Accept: externalism
Experience machine Accept: no
Extended mind Lean towards: yes
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Lean towards: push
Foundations of mathematics Lean towards: logicism
Free will Lean towards: compatibilism
Gender Accept: social
Gender categories Accept: eliminate
God Accept: atheism
Grounds of intentionality Lean towards: interpretational
Hard problem of consciousness Lean towards: yes
Human genetic engineering Lean towards: permissible
Hume Lean towards: naturalist
Immortality Lean towards: yes
Interlevel metaphysics Lean towards: grounding
Justification Lean towards: reliabilism
Kant Lean towards: one world
Knowledge Lean towards: empiricism
Knowledge claims Lean towards: contextualism
Law Agnostic/undecided
Laws of nature Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept non-Humean
  • Accept Humean
Logic Lean towards: non-classical
Material composition Lean towards: universalism
Meaning of life Accept: objective
Mental content Accept: externalism
Meta-ethics Accept: moral realism
Metaontology Accept: heavyweight realism
Metaphilosophy Accept: naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Accept: analytic/rational reconstruction
Method in political philosophy Lean towards: ideal theory
Mind Accept: physicalism
Mind uploading Lean towards: death
Moral judgment Lean towards: cognitivism
Moral motivation Agnostic/undecided
Moral principles Lean towards: moral generalism
Morality Accept: naturalist realism
Newcomb's problem Accept: two boxes
Normative concepts Lean towards: value
Normative ethics Lean towards: consequentialism
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Accept cats
  • Accept fish
  • Accept flies
  • Accept worms
  • Lean towards plants
  • Reject particles
  • Accept newborn babies
  • Lean against current AI systems
  • Lean towards future AI systems
Ought implies can Lean towards: yes
Perceptual experience Lean towards: disjunctivism
Personal identity Lean towards: biological view
Philosophical knowledge Lean towards: a little
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept empirical philosophy
  • Lean against conceptual analysis
  • Lean towards formal philosophy
  • Neutral towards conceptual engineering
  • Lean against experimental philosophy
  • Neutral towards linguistic philosophy
  • Reject intuition-based philosophy
Philosophical progress Lean towards: a little
Plato Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Political philosophy Lean towards: egalitarianism
Politics Accept: socialism
Possible worlds Accept: concrete
Practical reason Lean towards: Humean
Principle of sufficient reason Accept: true
Proper names Lean towards: Millian
Properties Lean towards: immanent universals
Propositional attitudes Lean towards: representational
Propositions Lean towards: structured entities
Quantum mechanics Accept: many-worlds
Race Lean towards: social
Race categories Lean towards: eliminate
Rational disagreement Lean towards: non-permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards abductive
  • Lean towards semantic externalist
  • Lean towards contextualist
Science Accept: scientific realism
Semantic content Lean towards: moderate contextualism (intermediate)
Sleeping beauty Accept: one-third
Spacetime Lean towards: relationism
Statue and lump Lean towards: two things
Teletransporter Lean towards: survival
Temporal ontology Accept: eternalism
Theory of reference Lean towards: causal
Time Accept: B-theory
Time travel Accept: metaphysically impossible
Trolley problem Accept: switch
True contradictions Lean towards: actual
Truth Lean towards: correspondence
Units of selection Lean towards: genes
Vagueness Agnostic/undecided
Values in science Lean towards: necessarily value-free
Well-being Lean towards: objective list
Wittgenstein Accept: early
Zombies Accept: conceivable but not metaphysically possible