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Alex Strasser

Texas A&M University
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My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: yes
Abstract objects Accept: nominalism
Aesthetic experience Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Aesthetic value Accept: subjective
Aim of philosophy Accept: truth/knowledge
Analysis of knowledge Accept: justified true belief
Analytic-synthetic distinction Accept: yes
Arguments for theism Accept a combination of answers:
  • Neutral towards ontological
  • Lean towards design
  • Lean against pragmatic
  • Accept cosmological
  • Lean towards moral
  • Reject existential
Belief or credence Lean towards: belief
Capital punishment Lean towards: impermissible
Causation Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Chinese room Lean towards: doesn't understand
Concepts Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Consciousness Accept: dualism
Continuum hypothesis Accept: indeterminate
Cosmological fine-tuning Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards design
  • Neutral towards no fine-tuning
  • Reject multiverse
  • Lean against brute fact
Eating animals and animal products Agnostic/undecided
Environmental ethics Lean towards: anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Accept: internalism
Experience machine Accept: no
Extended mind Lean towards: no
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Accept: push
Foundations of mathematics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Free will Lean towards: compatibilism
God Accept: theism
Grounds of intentionality Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Hard problem of consciousness Lean towards: yes
Human genetic engineering Lean towards: impermissible
Hume Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Immortality The question is too unclear to answer
Interlevel metaphysics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Justification Accept: nonreliabilist foundationalism
Kant Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Knowledge Accept: rationalism
Knowledge claims Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Law Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Laws of nature Lean towards: non-Humean
Logic Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept classical
  • Accept non-classical
Material composition Lean towards: restrictivism
Meaning of life Accept: objective
Mental content Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Meta-ethics Accept: moral realism
Metaontology Agnostic/undecided
Metaphilosophy Accept: non-naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Method in political philosophy Accept: non-ideal theory
Mind Lean towards: non-physicalism
Mind uploading Lean towards: death
Moral judgment Accept: cognitivism
Moral motivation Agnostic/undecided
Moral principles Lean towards: moral generalism
Morality Lean towards: non-naturalism
Newcomb's problem Lean towards: one box
Normative concepts Lean towards: value
Normative ethics Accept: consequentialism
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Reject cats
  • Reject fish
  • Reject flies
  • Reject worms
  • Reject plants
  • Reject particles
  • Accept newborn babies
  • Reject current AI systems
  • Lean against future AI systems
Ought implies can Accept: no
Perceptual experience Agnostic/undecided
Personal identity Lean towards: psychological view
Philosophical knowledge Accept: a lot
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept conceptual analysis
  • Neutral towards linguistic philosophy
  • Accept conceptual engineering
  • Lean towards experimental philosophy
  • Accept formal philosophy
  • Neutral towards intuition-based philosophy
  • Neutral towards empirical philosophy
Philosophical progress Lean towards: a little
Plato Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Politics Lean towards: capitalism
Possible worlds Accept: nonexistent
Practical reason Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Principle of sufficient reason Lean towards: true
Proper names Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Properties Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Propositional attitudes Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Propositions Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject acts
  • Lean towards nonexistent
  • Neutral towards simple entities
  • Reject sets
  • Neutral towards structured entities
Quantum mechanics Accept a combination of answers:
  • Neutral towards epistemic
  • Reject many-worlds
  • Accept collapse
  • Reject hidden-variables
Rational disagreement Lean towards: permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Accept: pragmatic
Science Accept an alternative view: realism for experimental science, lean toward antirealism for historical science
Semantic content Accept a combination of answers:
  • Neutral towards radical contextualism (most or all)
  • Lean against minimalism (no more than a few)
  • Lean towards moderate contextualism (intermediate)
Sleeping beauty Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Spacetime Accept an alternative view: substantivalism about space, relationism about time
Statue and lump Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Teletransporter Lean towards: survival
Temporal ontology Accept: eternalism
Theory of reference Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Time Accept: B-theory
Time travel Accept an alternative view: physically impossible and metaphysically irrelevant
Trolley problem Accept: switch
True contradictions Accept: impossible
Truth Accept: correspondence
Units of selection Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Vagueness Lean towards: semantic
Values in science The question is too unclear to answer
Well-being Accept a combination of answers:
  • Neutral towards desire satisfaction
  • Lean towards objective list
  • Reject hedonism/experientialism
Wittgenstein Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Zombies Accept a combination of answers:
  • Neutral towards metaphysically possible
  • Neutral towards conceivable but not metaphysically possible
  • Reject inconceivable