My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Lean towards: yes
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Accept: nominalism
Aesthetic experience Skipped
Aesthetic value Accept: objective
Aim of philosophy Accept: goodness/justice
Analysis of knowledge Accept: other analysis
Analytic-synthetic distinction Lean towards: yes
Arguments for theism Lean towards: ontological
Belief or credence The question is too unclear to answer
Capital punishment Accept: impermissible
Causation Lean towards: process/production
Chinese room Accept: understands
Concepts Lean towards: empiricism
Consciousness Lean towards: identity theory
Continuum hypothesis There is no fact of the matter
Cosmological fine-tuning Lean towards: brute fact
Eating animals and animal products Accept: omnivorism (yes and yes)
Environmental ethics Lean towards: non-anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Lean towards: externalism
Experience machine Skipped
Extended mind Lean towards: yes
External world Lean towards: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Accept: don't push
Foundations of mathematics Lean towards: structuralism
Free will Accept: libertarianism
Gender Lean towards: biological
Gender categories Lean towards: revise
God Accept: atheism
Grounds of intentionality Accept: primitive
Hard problem of consciousness Lean towards: yes
Human genetic engineering Lean towards: impermissible
Hume Lean towards: naturalist
Immortality Accept: no
Interlevel metaphysics Lean towards: identity
Justification Lean towards: reliabilism
Kant Agnostic/undecided
Knowledge Lean towards: empiricism
Knowledge claims Lean towards: contextualism
Law Lean towards: legal non-positivism
Laws of nature Accept: non-Humean
Logic Lean towards: non-classical
Material composition Skipped
Meaning of life Accept: nonexistent
Mental content Accept: externalism
Meta-ethics Lean towards: moral anti-realism
Metaontology Skipped
Metaphilosophy Lean towards: naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Lean towards: contextual/historicist
Method in political philosophy Lean towards: non-ideal theory
Mind Lean towards: physicalism
Mind uploading There is no fact of the matter
Moral judgment Accept: cognitivism
Moral motivation Lean towards: internalism
Moral principles Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Morality Accept: non-naturalism
Newcomb's problem Skipped
Normative concepts Lean towards: fit
Normative ethics Accept: virtue ethics
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Accept cats
  • Accept fish
  • Neutral towards flies
  • Neutral towards worms
  • Neutral towards plants
  • Lean against particles
  • Accept newborn babies
  • Lean against current AI systems
  • Lean against future AI systems
Ought implies can Lean towards: yes
Perceptual experience Accept: representationalism
Personal identity Accept: psychological view
Philosophical knowledge Accept: a lot
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards conceptual engineering
  • Accept linguistic philosophy
  • Neutral towards experimental philosophy
  • Accept intuition-based philosophy
  • Accept conceptual analysis
  • Accept empirical philosophy
  • Accept formal philosophy
Philosophical progress Lean towards: a lot
Plato Lean towards: knowledge also of concrete things
Political philosophy Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Politics Accept: socialism
Possible worlds The question is too unclear to answer
Practical reason Lean towards: Aristotelian
Principle of sufficient reason Accept: false
Proper names Accept: Millian
Properties Accept: tropes
Propositional attitudes Accept: dispositional
Propositions Accept: acts
Quantum mechanics Lean towards: epistemic
Race Accept: unreal
Race categories Accept: eliminate
Rational disagreement Skipped
Response to external-world skepticism Lean towards: contextualist
Science Lean towards: scientific realism
Semantic content Lean towards: radical contextualism (most or all)
Sleeping beauty Skipped
Spacetime Lean towards: relationism
Statue and lump Lean towards: two things
Teletransporter Lean towards: survival
Temporal ontology Lean towards: presentism
Theory of reference Lean towards: causal
Time There is no fact of the matter
Time travel Lean towards: metaphysically impossible
Trolley problem Accept: switch
True contradictions Lean towards: impossible
Truth Lean towards: correspondence
Units of selection Lean towards: genes
Vagueness Accept: epistemic
Values in science Lean towards: necessarily value-laden
Well-being Lean towards: objective list
Wittgenstein Accept: late
Zombies Lean towards: conceivable but not metaphysically possible