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Alex Worsnip

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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Yale University
Department of Philosophy
PhD, 2015
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Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
0000-0002-3757-3756
Areas of Specialization
Epistemology
Meta-Ethics
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Action
Philosophy of Language
Philosophy of Mind
Normative Ethics
Social and Political Philosophy
Philosophy of Social Science
17th/18th Century Philosophy
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My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: yes
Abortion Lean towards: permissible
Abstract objects Lean towards: Platonism
Aesthetic experience Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Aesthetic value Lean towards: subjective
Aim of philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept truth/knowledge
  • Reject happiness
  • Neutral towards wisdom
  • Accept understanding
  • Neutral towards goodness/justice
Analysis of knowledge Lean towards: no analysis
Analytic-synthetic distinction Accept: yes
Arguments for theism Lean towards: cosmological
Belief or credence Lean towards: neither
Capital punishment Accept: impermissible
Causation Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Chinese room Lean towards: doesn't understand
Concepts Agnostic/undecided
Consciousness Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Continuum hypothesis Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Cosmological fine-tuning Agnostic/undecided
Eating animals and animal products Lean towards: veganism (no and no)
Environmental ethics Lean towards: anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Lean towards: externalism
Experience machine Accept: no
Extended mind Insufficiently familiar with the issue
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Agnostic/undecided
Foundations of mathematics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Free will Agnostic/undecided
Gender Accept: social
Gender categories Accept a combination of answers:
  • Neutral towards revise
  • Reject preserve
  • Neutral towards eliminate
God Lean towards: atheism
Grounds of intentionality Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Hard problem of consciousness Lean towards: yes
Human genetic engineering Agnostic/undecided
Hume There is no fact of the matter
Immortality Lean towards: no
Interlevel metaphysics Lean towards: grounding
Justification Lean towards: nonreliabilist foundationalism
Kant Agnostic/undecided
Knowledge The question is too unclear to answer
Knowledge claims Accept: contextualism
Law Accept: legal positivism
Laws of nature Lean towards: non-Humean
Logic Lean towards: classical
Material composition Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Meaning of life The question is too unclear to answer
Mental content Lean towards: externalism
Meta-ethics Lean towards: moral realism
Metaontology Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Metaphilosophy The question is too unclear to answer
Method in history of philosophy Accept an alternative view: Pluralism - both equally legitimate
Method in political philosophy Accept an alternative view: Pluralism
Mind Lean towards: physicalism
Mind uploading Lean towards: death
Moral judgment Accept an alternative view: Hybridism/pluralism
Moral motivation Lean towards: internalism
Moral principles Accept: moral generalism
Morality Lean towards: non-naturalism
Newcomb's problem Lean towards: two boxes
Normative concepts There is no fact of the matter
Normative ethics Accept: deontology
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Accept cats
  • Accept fish
  • Accept flies
  • Accept worms
  • Reject plants
  • Reject particles
  • Accept newborn babies
  • Reject current AI systems
  • Neutral towards future AI systems
Ought implies can Lean towards: yes
Perceptual experience Lean towards: disjunctivism
Personal identity There is no fact of the matter
Philosophical knowledge Lean towards: a little
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept linguistic philosophy
  • Accept experimental philosophy
  • Accept intuition-based philosophy
  • Accept empirical philosophy
  • Accept formal philosophy
  • Accept conceptual engineering
  • Accept conceptual analysis
Philosophical progress Lean towards: a little
Plato Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Political philosophy Lean towards: egalitarianism
Politics Lean towards: capitalism
Possible worlds Lean towards: abstract
Practical reason The question is too unclear to answer
Principle of sufficient reason Lean towards: false
Proper names Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Properties Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Propositional attitudes Lean towards: dispositional
Propositions Agnostic/undecided
Quantum mechanics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Race Lean towards: social
Race categories Accept a combination of answers:
  • Neutral towards eliminate
  • Neutral towards revise
  • Reject preserve
Rational disagreement Lean towards: permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject semantic externalist
  • Accept abductive
  • Accept contextualist
  • Accept pragmatic
  • Lean against dogmatist
  • Accept epistemic externalist
Science Lean towards: scientific realism
Semantic content Lean towards: moderate contextualism (intermediate)
Sleeping beauty Lean towards: one-half
Spacetime Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Statue and lump There is no fact of the matter
Teletransporter There is no fact of the matter
Temporal ontology Lean towards: eternalism
Theory of reference Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Time Lean towards: B-theory
Time travel Lean towards: metaphysically impossible
Trolley problem Lean towards: switch
True contradictions Accept: impossible
Truth Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept correspondence
  • Accept deflationary
  • Reject epistemic
Units of selection Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Vagueness Lean towards: semantic
Values in science Lean towards: necessarily value-laden
Well-being Accept: hedonism/experientialism
Wittgenstein There is no fact of the matter
Zombies Insufficiently familiar with the issue