My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: yes
Abortion Lean towards: impermissible
Abstract objects Lean towards: Platonism
Aesthetic experience Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept perception
  • Accept sui generis
  • Lean towards pleasure
Aesthetic value Lean towards: objective
Aim of philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept goodness/justice
  • Accept truth/knowledge
  • Accept wisdom
  • Accept understanding
  • Accept happiness
Analysis of knowledge Accept: justified true belief
Analytic-synthetic distinction Lean towards: no
Arguments for theism Skipped
Belief or credence Lean towards: belief
Capital punishment Lean towards: impermissible
Causation Lean towards: counterfactual/difference-making
Chinese room Accept: doesn't understand
Concepts Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards nativism
  • Lean towards empiricism
Consciousness Lean towards: identity theory
Continuum hypothesis Skipped
Cosmological fine-tuning Accept: design
Eating animals and animal products Lean towards: vegetarianism (no and yes)
Environmental ethics Lean towards: non-anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Accept: internalism
Experience machine Accept: no
Extended mind Lean towards: no
External world Lean towards: skepticism
Footbridge Accept: don't push
Foundations of mathematics Skipped
Free will Accept an alternative view: Transcendentally free will
Gender The question is too unclear to answer
Gender categories Skipped
God Accept an alternative view: mysticism
Grounds of intentionality Accept: inferential
Hard problem of consciousness Lean towards: yes
Human genetic engineering Lean towards: impermissible
Hume Skipped
Immortality Lean towards: yes
Interlevel metaphysics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Justification Accept: coherentism
Kant Skipped
Knowledge Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept empiricism
  • Accept rationalism
Knowledge claims Agnostic/undecided
Law Skipped
Laws of nature Lean towards: Humean
Logic Accept: classical
Material composition Skipped
Meaning of life Lean towards: objective
Mental content Accept: internalism
Meta-ethics Accept: moral realism
Metaontology Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Metaphilosophy Lean towards: naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Lean towards: analytic/rational reconstruction
Method in political philosophy Skipped
Mind Accept an alternative view: neutral monism
Mind uploading Lean towards: death
Moral judgment Accept: cognitivism
Moral motivation Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Moral principles Skipped
Morality Accept a combination of answers:
  • Neutral towards naturalist realism
  • Reject error theory
  • Lean against constructivism
  • Neutral towards non-naturalism
  • Lean against expressivism
  • Accept transcendentalism
Newcomb's problem Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Normative concepts Skipped
Normative ethics Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject consequentialism
  • Accept deontology
  • Accept virtue ethics
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Accept cats
  • Accept fish
  • Accept flies
  • Accept worms
  • Accept plants
  • Lean towards particles
  • Accept newborn babies
  • Lean against current AI systems
  • Lean against future AI systems
Ought implies can Accept: yes
Perceptual experience Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject disjunctivism
  • Accept sense-datum theory
  • Neutral towards qualia theory
  • Accept representationalism
Personal identity Agnostic/undecided
Philosophical knowledge Accept: a little
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards linguistic philosophy
  • Lean towards conceptual engineering
  • Accept intuition-based philosophy
  • Neutral towards experimental philosophy
  • Neutral towards formal philosophy
  • Lean towards empirical philosophy
  • Accept conceptual analysis
Philosophical progress Accept: a little
Plato Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Political philosophy Lean towards: libertarianism
Politics The question is too unclear to answer
Possible worlds Accept: concrete
Practical reason Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Principle of sufficient reason Accept: true
Proper names Lean towards: Fregean
Properties Skipped
Propositional attitudes Accept: representational
Propositions Lean towards: sets
Quantum mechanics Lean towards: hidden-variables
Race Lean towards: biological
Race categories Agnostic/undecided
Rational disagreement Lean towards: permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject dogmatist
  • Reject contextualist
  • Reject pragmatic
  • Reject epistemic externalist
  • Lean towards abductive
  • Reject semantic externalist
Science Lean towards: scientific realism
Semantic content Lean towards: radical contextualism (most or all)
Sleeping beauty Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Spacetime Skipped
Statue and lump Lean towards: one thing
Teletransporter Lean towards: death
Temporal ontology Skipped
Theory of reference Accept: descriptive
Time Agnostic/undecided
Time travel Lean towards: metaphysically impossible
Trolley problem Lean towards: don't switch
True contradictions Lean towards: impossible
Truth Accept: correspondence
Units of selection Skipped
Vagueness Lean towards: metaphysical
Values in science Skipped
Well-being Skipped
Wittgenstein Accept an alternative view: Both equally good
Zombies Accept: inconceivable