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Alexandru Manafu

York University
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University of Western Ontario
Department of Philosophy
PhD, 2012
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Physical Science
Emergence
Philosophy of Science, Misc
Reduction
Metaphysics
Areas of Interest
Emergence
Reduction
Philosophy of Science, Misc
Metaphysics
Philosophy of Physical Science
Philosophy of Mind
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My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Lean towards: yes
Abortion Lean towards: impermissible
Abstract objects Accept: Platonism
Aesthetic value Lean towards: objective
Aim of philosophy Accept: understanding
Analysis of knowledge Accept an alternative view: Pragmatic
Analytic-synthetic distinction Lean towards: yes
Cosmological fine-tuning Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards design
  • Lean towards brute fact
Eating animals and animal products Lean towards: omnivorism (yes and yes)
Epistemic justification Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Experience machine Accept: no
External world Lean towards: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Accept: don't push
Free will Lean towards: compatibilism
Gender Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards psychological
  • Lean towards social
  • Accept biological
God Lean towards: theism
Knowledge Other
Knowledge claims Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Laws of nature Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Logic Lean towards: classical
Meaning of life Accept: objective
Mental content Lean towards: externalism
Meta-ethics Lean towards: moral anti-realism
Metaphilosophy Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Method in political philosophy Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Mind Accept: physicalism
Mind uploading Lean towards: death
Moral judgment Lean towards: non-cognitivism
Moral motivation Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards externalism
  • Lean towards internalism
Moral principles Agnostic/undecided
Newcomb's problem Lean towards: two boxes
Normative ethics Lean towards: virtue ethics
Perceptual experience Accept: representationalism
Personal identity Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Philosophical knowledge Lean towards: a lot
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Neutral towards formal philosophy
  • Neutral towards linguistic philosophy
  • Neutral towards conceptual engineering
  • Neutral towards experimental philosophy
  • Accept empirical philosophy
  • Accept conceptual analysis
  • Neutral towards intuition-based philosophy
Philosophical progress Accept: a little
Political philosophy Accept: libertarianism
Proper names Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Race Other
Science Accept: scientific realism
Sleeping beauty Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Statue and lump There is no fact of the matter
Teletransporter Lean towards: survival
Time Accept: B-theory
Time travel Accept: metaphysically possible
Trolley problem Agnostic/undecided
Truth Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards correspondence
  • Lean towards deflationary
Vagueness Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Zombies Accept: conceivable but not metaphysically possible