My Survey Responses
| Survey Prompt | Response |
|---|---|
| A priori knowledge | Accept: yes |
| Abortion | Accept: impermissible |
| Abstract objects | Lean towards: nominalism |
| Aesthetic experience | Accept: perception |
| Aesthetic value | Accept: objective |
| Aim of philosophy | Accept: wisdom |
| Analysis of knowledge | Lean towards: no analysis |
| Analytic-synthetic distinction | Lean towards: no |
| Arguments for theism |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| Belief or credence | Lean towards: credence |
| Capital punishment | Accept an alternative view: permissible in cases that do not occur in modern practice |
| Causation | Lean towards: primitive |
| Chinese room | Accept: doesn't understand |
| Concepts | Lean towards: nativism |
| Consciousness | Accept: dualism |
| Continuum hypothesis | Lean towards: indeterminate |
| Cosmological fine-tuning | Accept: design |
| Eating animals and animal products | Accept: omnivorism (yes and yes) |
| Environmental ethics | Lean towards: anthropocentric |
| Epistemic justification | Lean towards: internalism |
| Experience machine | Accept: no |
| Extended mind | Accept: no |
| External world | Accept: non-skeptical realism |
| Footbridge | Lean towards: don't push |
| Foundations of mathematics | Lean towards: structuralism |
| Free will | Accept: libertarianism |
| Gender | Lean towards: biological |
| Gender categories | Lean towards: preserve |
| God | Accept: theism |
| Grounds of intentionality | Lean towards: primitive |
| Hard problem of consciousness | Accept: yes |
| Human genetic engineering | The question is too unclear to answer |
| Hume | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Immortality | Accept: yes |
| Interlevel metaphysics | Lean towards: grounding |
| Justification | Lean towards: nonreliabilist foundationalism |
| Kant | Lean towards: two worlds |
| Knowledge | Lean towards: empiricism |
| Knowledge claims | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Law | Accept: legal non-positivism |
| Laws of nature | Accept an alternative view: some laws are Humean and some are non-Humean |
| Logic | Accept: classical |
| Material composition | Accept an alternative view: macro nihilism: no micro parts |
| Meaning of life | Accept: objective |
| Mental content | Lean towards: externalism |
| Meta-ethics | Accept: moral realism |
| Metaontology | Accept: heavyweight realism |
| Metaphilosophy | Accept: non-naturalism |
| Method in history of philosophy | Lean towards: analytic/rational reconstruction |
| Method in political philosophy | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Mind | Accept: non-physicalism |
| Mind uploading | Accept: death |
| Moral judgment | Accept: cognitivism |
| Moral motivation | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Moral principles | Accept: moral generalism |
| Morality | Accept: non-naturalism |
| Newcomb's problem | Lean towards: two boxes |
| Normative concepts | Lean towards: value |
| Normative ethics | Accept: deontology |
| Other minds |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| Ought implies can | Lean towards: yes |
| Perceptual experience | Lean towards: representationalism |
| Personal identity | Accept: further-fact view |
| Philosophical knowledge | Accept: a little |
| Philosophical methods |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| Philosophical progress | Accept: a little |
| Plato | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Political philosophy | Lean towards: communitarianism |
| Politics | Lean towards: capitalism |
| Possible worlds | Lean towards: abstract |
| Practical reason | Lean towards: Aristotelian |
| Principle of sufficient reason | Accept: true |
| Proper names | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Properties | Accept an alternative view: Augustinianism |
| Propositional attitudes | Lean towards: representational |
| Propositions | Accept an alternative view: divine thoughts |
| Quantum mechanics | Lean towards: collapse |
| Race | Accept: social |
| Race categories | Accept: eliminate |
| Rational disagreement | Lean towards: permissivism |
| Response to external-world skepticism | Lean towards: dogmatist |
| Science | Lean towards: scientific realism |
| Semantic content | Lean towards: radical contextualism (most or all) |
| Sleeping beauty | Lean towards: one-third |
| Spacetime | Accept an alternative view: location as a monadic determinable |
| Statue and lump | Accept an alternative view: zero things |
| Teletransporter | Lean towards: death |
| Temporal ontology | Accept: eternalism |
| Theory of reference | Lean towards: descriptive |
| Time | Accept: B-theory |
| Time travel | Lean towards: metaphysically possible |
| Trolley problem | Accept: switch |
| True contradictions | Accept: impossible |
| Truth | Lean towards: correspondence |
| Units of selection | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Vagueness | Lean towards: epistemic |
| Values in science | Accept: necessarily value-laden |
| Well-being | Other |
| Wittgenstein | Lean towards: late |
| Zombies | Accept: metaphysically possible |